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Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards

2012 Awardees

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Scientists/Inventors Breakthrough Publication
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Location of Award
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L. Pasteur “Mémoire sur la relation qui peut exister entre la forme cristalline de la composition
chimique, et sur la cause de la polarisation rotatoire,”

Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 1848, 26, 535 - 538.
École normale supérieure, Paris
D. Mendelejeff “Ueber die Beziehungen der Eigenschaften zu den Atomgewichten der elemente,”
Zeitschrift für Chemie, 1869, 12, 405 - 406.
Saint Petersburg State University
J. H. van't Hoff “LES FORMULES DE STRUCTURE. DANS L'ESPACE,”
Archives neerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles, 1874, 9, 445 - 454.
University of Utrecht *
E. Rutherford “LXXIX. The Scattering of α and β Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom,”
Philosophical Magazine, 1911, 21 [Series 6], 669 - 688.
The University of Manchester **

* A duplicate plaque hangs at the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ** Three plaques hang at The University of Manchester, one in the Department of Chemistry, one in the Department of Physics and Astronomy (Schuster Building), and one in the original laboratory which is now a meeting room in the Main Building.