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Citations for Chemical Breakthroughs
2006 Awardees

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Year of Award Scientists/Inventors Breakthrough Publication Location of Award
2006 M. Gomberg "An Instance of Trivalent Carbon: Triphenylmethyl"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1900, 22, 757-771.
University of Michigan
2006 G N Lewis "The Atom and the Molecule"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1916, 38, 762-785.
University of California, Berkeley
2006 E. O. Lawrence "Method and Apparatus for the Acceleration of Ions"
U.S. Patent 1,948,384 (20 February 1934),
assignor to Research Corporation, New York, NY.
University of California, Berkeley
2006 A. O. Beckman and Henry E. Fracker "Apparatus for Testing Acidity"
U.S. Patent 2,058,761 (27 October 1936),
assignors to National Technical Laboratories, Pasadena, CA.
Beckman Coulter
2006 L. Pauling The Nature of the Chemical Bond
Cornell University Press, 1939.
Caltech
2006 Roy J. Plunkett "Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers"
U.S. Patent 2,230,654 (4 February 1941),
assignor to Kinetic Chemicals, Inc. of Wilmington, DE.
DuPont
2006 H. F. Fisher, E. C. Conn, B. Vennesland, F. H. Westheimer "The Enzymatic Transfer of Hydrogen.
I. The Reaction Catalyzed by Alcohol Dehydrogenase"

J. Biol. Chem. 1953, 202, 687–697.
University of Chicago
2006 B. Merrifield "Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis. I. The Synthesis of a Tetrapeptide"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1963, 85, 2149-2154.
Rockefeller University
2006 R. B. Woodward and R. Hoffmann "Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1965, 87, 395-397.
Harvard University
2006 M. J. Molina and F. S. Rowland "Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes:
Chlorine Atom-Catalysed Destruction of Ozone"
Nature 1974, 249, 810-812.
University of California, Irvine