Royal Society of Chemistry National Chemical Landmarks Award Honouree Location Inscription Date The Institute of Cancer Research, Chester ICR scientists on this site and elsewhere pioneered numerous new cancer drugs from 10 Institute of Cancer Beatty Laboratories, 237 the 1950s until the present day – including the discovery of chemotherapy drug December Research Fulham Road, Chelsea carboplatin, prostate cancer drug abiraterone and the genetic targeting of olaparib for 2018 Road, London, SW3 ovarian and breast cancer. 6JB, UK The Institute of Cancer ICR scientists on this site and elsewhere pioneered numerous new cancer drugs from 10 Research, Royal Institute of Cancer the 1950s until the present day – including the discovery of chemotherapy drug December Marsden Hospital, 15 Research carboplatin, prostate cancer drug abiraterone and the genetic targeting of olaparib for 2018 Cotswold Road, Sutton, ovarian and breast cancer. London, SM2 5NG, UK Ape and Apple, 28-30 John Dalton Street was opened in 1846 by Manchester Corporation in honour of 26 October John Dalton Street, famous chemist, John Dalton, who in Manchester in 1803 developed the Atomic John Dalton 2016 Manchester, M2 6HQ, Theory which became the foundation of modern chemistry. President of Manchester UK Literary and Philosophical Society 1816-1844. Chemical structure of Near this site in 1903, James Colquhoun Irvine, Thomas Purdie and their team found 30 College Gate, North simple sugars, James a way to understand the chemical structure of simple sugars like glucose and lactose. September Street, St Andrews, Fife, Colquhoun Irvine and Over the next 18 years this allowed them to lay the foundations of modern 2016 KY16 9AJ, UK Thomas Purdie carbohydrate chemistry, with implications for medicine, nutrition and biochemistry. The Shop at Strood In 1957 scientists working for Beecham Research Laboratories at nearby Brockham 10 June Beecham Research Green, 1 Tynedale Park discovered a chemical which they used to develop many new penicillins with 2016 Laboratories Road, Betchworth, unique properties for the treatment of bacterial infections. These medicines have Surrey, RH3 7JD, UK relieved suffering and saved millions of lives worldwide. © Royal Society of Chemistry Registered charity number 207890 Shell Research Ltd Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology. In recognition of Kent Science Park, the pioneering work carried out here when he was co-director of the laboratory. 01 April Broadoak Road, Sir John Cornforth Cornforth led a team that revealed the detailed chemistry of how enzymes work, and 2016 Sittingbourne, Kent, explained how cholesterol builds up in the body. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ME9 8XP, UK Chemistry in 1975. Lancaster Royal Professor of Chemistry. Attended this school 1837–1839. Discovered many new 03 Grammar School, East chemical compounds, made important contributions to chemical theory, and improved November Sir Edward Frankland Road, Lancaster, LA1 the quality of domestic water supplies. President of the Chemical Society and the 2015 3EF, UK Institute of Chemistry. Apprentice apothecary to John Bingham Borlase in this building, 1795-1798. 17 1 Market Place, Progressed to the Medical Pneumatic Institution, Bristol, 1798 and to the Royal September Sir Humphry Davy Penzance, Cornwall, Institution, London, 1801. Davy established the nature of acids, identified 9 elements 2015 TR18 2JQ, UK and invented the miner's safety lamp. To mark the 100th birthday of Daniel Eley, pioneering physical chemist. His research, School of Chemistry, much of it conducted in Nottingham, bridges chemistry, physics and biology. It 01 October University of Daniel Douglas Eley includes the Eley-Rideal mechanism of gas-surface reactions, organic 2014 Nottingham, Nottingham, semiconductors, discovery of the conductivity of DNA, ortho/para hydrogen NG7 2RD, UK conversion and understanding the structure of aqueous solutions. BP Chemicals Ltd, In recognition of 100 years of innovation in supplying the UK with transportation fuels 23 Saltend Chemicals Park, and important base chemicals. Saltend has uniquely combined in one location the September Saltend Chemicals Park Saltend, East Yorkshire, research, development and commercialisation of numerous new processes for the 2014 HU12 8DS, UK manufacture of organic acids, alcohols and their derivatives. Thomas Graham Born in Glasgow and Professor of Chemistry at Anderson’s University (now Building, University of University of Strathclyde) from 1830–1837. His famous contributions to Science were 02 July Thomas Graham Strathclyde, 295 Graham’s Law of Diffusion and his pioneering work on dialysis. He founded the 2014 Cathedral Street, Chemical Society of London in 1841, and became Master of the Mint. He is Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK commemorated by this building and by a statue in George Square. © Royal Society of Chemistry Registered charity number 207890 Johnson Matthey PLC, In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the world’s first commercial autocatalysts 20 June Orchard Road, Royston, being manufactured on this site, and the subsequent development of catalysts and Johnson Matthey PLC 2014 Hertfordshire, SG8 filters for gasoline and diesel vehicles that have cleaned billions of tonnes of 5HE, UK pollutants from the environment worldwide. Department of Led pioneering work in this building from 1956–1972 and elsewhere in Oxford on the Chemistry, University of 06 May structures of antibiotics, vitamins and proteins including penicillin, vitamin B12 and Dorothy Hodgkin1 Oxford, South Parks 2014 insulin, using X-ray diffraction techniques for which she received the Nobel Prize in Road, Oxford, OX1 3TF, Chemistry in 1964. UK BioCity Nottingham, 21 Ibuprofen, Dr Stewart In recognition of the pioneering research work, here on Pennyfood Street, by Dr Pennyfoot Street, November Adams and Dr John Stewart Adams and Dr John Nicholson in the Research Department of Boots which Nottingham, NG1 1GF, 2013 Nicholson led to the discovery of ibuprofen used by millions worldwide for the relief of pain. UK Building D6, Boots Beeston Factory Site, 21 In recognition of the work during the 1980s by The Boots Company PLC on the Ibuprofen and The Boots Dunkirk Industrial November development of ibuprofen which resulted in its move from prescription only status to Company PLC Estate, 1 Thane Road, 2013 over the counter sale, therefore expanding its use to millions of people worldwide. Nottingham, NG90 1BS, UK Queen's University Close to this site, in 1869, Andrews discovered the 'critical temperature' for the 15 October Belfast, University Road, Thomas Andrews liquefaction of carbon dioxide, the basis of cryogenics and of low temperature 2013 Belfast, BT7 1NN, chemistry and physics. Northern Ireland Surface enhanced Chemistry, University of University of Southampton Chemistry. On this site in 1973, Martin Fleischmann, Raman spectroscopy, Southampton, 12 24 July Patrick J. Hendra and A. James McQuillan recorded the first surface enhanced Martin Fleischmann, University Road, 2013 Raman spectra (SERS) leading to the development of a highly sensitive surface Patrick J. Hendra and A. Southampton, SO17 spectroscopic technique that is now used worldwide. James McQuillan 1BJ, UK © Royal Society of Chemistry Registered charity number 207890 Kimbolton School, 19 March The Reverend Ron Kimbolton, Huntingdon, For his contribution to fireworks research, development and displays and for services 2013 Lancaster Cambridgeshire, PE28 to the pyrotechnic industry. 0EA, UK Wolfson Laboratories, Imperial College 21 Professor The Lord 1985–2002 Chairman, Centre for Photomolecular Sciences and Visiting Professor, London, 7 Imperial November George Porter of Imperial College. 1967 Nobel Laureate for the study of fast reactions by flash College Road, 2012 Luddenham photolysis. Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK Inorganic Chemistry Glucose Sensor, Allen Laboratory, University of In this laboratory on 20 July 1982, Allen Hill, Tony Cass and Graham Davis 16 July Hill, Tony Cass and Oxford, South Parks (Chemist) made the crucial discovery which led to the development of a unique 2012 Graham Davis Road, Oxford, OX1 electronic blood glucose sensor now used by millions of diabetics worldwide. 3QR, UK Bennie Museum, 9-11 In recognition of his outstanding contribution, started on a site close to here in 27 April Mansefield Street, Birniehill Bathgate, where in c. 1850 he processed torbanite ('cannel coal') to create James 'Paraffin' Young 2012 Bathgate, EH48 4HU, the first commercial production of paraffin oil in the world, leading to the major shale UK oil industry in West Lothian. Thomas Graham House, 08 This plaque, at the home of the Royal Society of Chemistry's publishing operations, Royal Society of Science Park, Milton December commemorates the 170th anniversary of the society's scientific publishing, which has Chemistry Publishing Road, Cambridge, CB4 2011 made a profound contribution to the advancement of the chemical sciences. 2HY, UK University of Ghent, Aula 28 October Recognising his pioneering work at Ghent University (1858–1867) on structural and August Kekulé Ugent, Voldersstraat 9, 2011 organic aromatic chemistry. 9000, Ghent, Belgium2 © Royal Society of Chemistry Registered charity number 207890 ICI General Chemicals, Catalyst Science In recognition of the outstanding scientific contribution made by Charles Suckling and 22 October Widnes Research Discovery Centre, others, close to this site in 1951, in the synthesis and subsequent commercial 2011 Laboratory and Charles Mersey