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As of spring 2015, five American Chemical Society (ACS) “National Historic Chemical Landmark” plaques have commemorated outstanding achievements in chemistry in New York City. These are at New York University (NYU), Columbia University, Rockefeller University (all in Manhattan), and the Polytechnic School of Engineering of NYU (in Brooklyn). The fifth used to be at the Pfizer plant in Brooklyn. The ACS Division of the History of Chemistry has its own program of commemorative plaques of “Citation for Chemical Breakthrough” and those erected in New York City are also introduced here.
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In spring 2015, it took quite some detective work by Bob Weintraub, Director of the Library of Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (Beersheva and Ashdod, Israel) to determine the current whereabouts of the Pfizer plaque. I thank him and Jeff Brand of Corporate Affairs, Pfizer, Inc, New York, for a high-quality image of the plaque. Furthermore, I thank Vera V. Mainz (Urbana, IL) for a high-quality image of the Urey plaque. This Editorial was based on the preparations of a book tentatively titled New York Scientific by Istvan Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai.
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Hargittai, I. ACS memorial plaques in New York City. Struct Chem 26, 899–903 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-015-0609-5
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