Abstract
The ACS Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) is calling for nominations for its 2017 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Awards. The awards recognize breakthrough publications, books, and patents worldwide in the field of chemistry. The advances must have been revolutionary in concept, broad in scope, and long-term in impact.Departments or institutions being recognized will receive a plaque to be hung near the office or laboratory where the breakthrough was achieved.The award, now entering its 12th year, has recognized 57 breakthrough achievements in chemistry around the world. The 2016 awardees are the University of Innsbruck for Leopold Pfaundler’s 1867 research on the kinetic theory of chemical reactions; the University of Chicago for Willard F. Libby’s 1947 discovery of radiocarbon dating to estimate the age of organic materials; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for Herbert S. Gutowsky’s 1951 first observation of spin-spin coupling in liquids, a crucial step in transforming NMR
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