National Historic Chemical Landmark
A National Historic Chemical Landmark is a place, discovery or achievement which has been designated by the American Chemical Society (sometimes in conjunction with other national chemical societies) as particularly important in the history of chemistry.[1]
| Landmark | Date | Date designated |
ACS site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bakelite | 1907 | 1993 | [1] |
| Chandler Chemistry Laboratory | 1884 | 1994 | [2] |
| Pennsylvania home of Joseph Priestley | 1798–1804 | 1994 | [3] |
| Atomic weight of oxygen | 1995 | ||
| Chemicals from coal | 1995 | ||
| First nylon plant | 1995 | ||
| Riverside Laboratory | 1995 | ||
| Acrylonitrile production process | 1996 | ||
| Houdry process for gasoline production | 1996 | ||
| Kem-Tone® paint | 1996 | ||
| Williams-Miles History of Chemistry Collection | 1996 | ||
| Aluminum production process | 1997 | ||
| Bromine production process | 1997 | ||
| Gilman Hall | 1997 | ||
| Radiation chemistry commercialized | 1997 | ||
| Calcium carbide and acetylene production process | 1998 | ||
| Fluid bed reactor for gasoline production | 1998 | ||
| Havemeyer Hall | 1998 | ||
| Raman Effect | 1998 | ||
| Synthetic rubber | 1998 | ||
| Tagamet® development process | 1998 | ||
| Penicillin | 1999 | ||
| Physostigmine synthesized | 1999 | ||
| Progesterone synthesis and Mexican steroid industry | 1999 | ||
| Polymer science of Hermann Staudinger | 1999 | ||
| Polypropylene and high-density polyethylene | 1999 | ||
| Rare earth elements | 1999 | ||
| Work of Antoine Lavoisier | 1999 | ||
| Bowood House, site of Joseph Priestley's discovery of oxygen | 1774 | 2000 | [4] |
| Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection | 2000 | ||
| Helium in natural gas | 2000 | ||
| Organic free radicals | 2000 | ||
| Polymer science | 2000 | ||
| Protein and nucleic acid chemistry at Rockefeller University | 2000 | ||
| Transcurium elements at E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 2000 | ||
| Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory founded by Charles Herty | 2001 | ||
| National Institute of Standards and Technology, (NIST) | 2001 | ||
| The Commercialization of Aluminum | 2001 | ||
| John W. Draper and the Founding of the American Chemical Society | 2001 | ||
| Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing | 2002 | ||
| Albert Szent-Györgyi and the Discovery of Vitamin C | 2002 | ||
| Noyes Laboratory: One Hundred Years of Chemistry | 2002 | ||
| Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine | 2002 | ||
| Quality and Stability of Frozen Foods | 2002 | ||
| The Discovery of Camptothecin and Taxol® | 2003 | ||
| The Polymer Research Institute | 2003 | ||
| The Development of High Performance Carbon Fibers | 2003 | ||
| The Beckman pH Meter | 2004 | ||
| Evolution of Durable Press and Flame Retardant Cotton | 2004 | ||
| Carl and Gerty Cori and Carbohydrate Metabolism. | 2004 | ||
| George Washington Carver: Chemist, Teacher, Symbol | 2005 | ||
| Selman Waksman and Antibiotics | 2005 | ||
| The Development of the Columbia Dry Cell | 2005 | ||
| Neil Bartlett and Reactive Noble Gases | 2006 | ||
| Rumford Baking Powder | 2006 | ||
| The Development of Tide® | 2006 | ||
| Food Dehydration Technology | 2007 | ||
| Chemical Abstracts Service | 2007 | ||
| Scotch transparent tape | 2007 | ||
| Jamestown: the birth of the American Chemical Enterprise | 2007 | ||
| The production and distribution of radioisotopes | 2008 | [5] | |
| The development of deep-tank fermentation | 2008 | [6] | |
| Acrylic emulsion technology: from plastics to paints | 2008 | [7] | |
| The Development of the Pennsylvania Oil Industry | 2009 | ||
| Deciphering the Genetic Code | 2009 |
References
- ↑ About the Landmarks Program; American Chemical Society, <http://acswebcontent.acs.org/landmarks/about2.html>. (accessed 2 April 2010).
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