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Citations for Chemical Breakthrough Awards

2023 Awardees

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Scientists/Inventors Breakthrough Publication
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Location of Award
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J. N. Brönsted “Einige Bemerkungen über den Begriff der Säuren und Basen,” Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas 1923, 42, 718 - 728. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
O. Hahn and F. Strassmann “Über den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle,” Naturwissenschaften 1939, 27, 11 - 15. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,
Mainz, Germany
L. Meitner and O. R. Frisch “Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction,” Nature 1939, 143, 239 - 240. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
and the
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark