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Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards

2011 Awardees

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Scientists/Inventors Breakthrough Publication
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Location of Award
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A. Avogadro “D'UNE MANIÈRE DE DÈTERMINER LES MASSES RELATIVES DES MOLÉCULES ÉLÉMENTAIRES DES CORPS,
ET LES PROPORTIONS SELON LESQUELLES ELLES ENTRENT DANS CES COMBINAISONS,”

Journal de Physique, 1811, 73, 58 - 76.
Liceo Scientifico “A. Avogadro” Vercelli
Newspaper reports of the award
Award ceremony agenda
Teresa Celestino's Bulletin report on the award
Teresa Celestino's videos of award ceremony in Vercelli, Italy:
S. Cannizzaro “Lettera del Prof. Stanislao Cannizzaro,”
Nuovo Cimento, 1858, 7, 321-366.
Università degli Studi di Genova
Photograph at the award ceremony
Sketch of Stanislao Cannizzaro at age 31 or 32
G. N. Lewis and M. Randall “Thermodynamics and The Free Energy of Chemical Substances,”
1923.
University of California, Berkeley
O. Diels and K. Alder “Synthesen in der hydroaromatischen Reihe,”
Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1928, 460, 98 - 122.
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
R. Robinson “LXIII. - A Synthesis of Tropinone,”
Journal of the Chemical Society, 1917, 762 - 768.
University of Liverpool