Directory of National Historic Chemical Landmarks
Listed by Landmark category. Not all Landmarks are listed below.
Consumer Products
- Acrylic Emulsion Technology
- Bakelite®: The World’s First Synthetic Plastic
- Columbia Dry Cell Battery
- Cotton Products Research
- Crest: A Breakthrough in Oral Care
- DayGlo Fluorescent Pigments
- Development of Baking Powder
- Flavor Chemistry Research at the USDA
- Food Dehydration Technology
- Frozen Foods Research: Time-Temperature Tolerance Studies
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
- George Eastman, Kodak, and the Birth of Consumer Photography
- George Washington Carver: Chemist, Teacher, Symbol
- Modern Water-based Paint: Kem-Tone Wall Finish
- Scotch Transparent Tape
- Thomas Edison, Chemist
- Tide Synthetic Detergent
Cradles of Chemistry
- Chandler Laboratory at Lehigh University
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Chemical Hearth
- Chemistry at Jamestown
- Gilman Hall at the University of California, Berkeley
- Havemeyer Hall at Columbia University
- Herman Mark and the Polymer Research Institute
- Izaak Maurits Kolthoff and Modern Analytical Chemistry
- John W. Draper and the Founding of the American Chemical Society
- Mellon Institute of Industrial Research at Carnegie Mellon University
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Noyes Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry
- Rachel Lloyd, Ph.D., Pioneer Woman Chemist
- Science History Institute
- Smith Memorial Collection at the University of Pennsylvania
- Universal Oil Products (UOP) Riverside Laboratory
- Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry at Purdue University
- Williams-Miles History of Chemistry Collection at Harding University
Frontiers of Knowledge
- Ames Laboratory and Uranium Production in World War II
- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier: The Chemical Revolution
- C.V. Raman: The Raman Effect
- Chlorofluorocarbons and Ozone Depletion
- Deciphering the Genetic Code
- Discovery of Fullerenes
- Discovery of Helium in Natural Gas
- Edward W. Morley and the Atomic Weight of Oxygen
- Foundations of Polymer Science: Hermann Staudinger and Macromolecules
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
- Infrared Spectrometer and the Exploration of Mars
- Joseph Priestley: Discoverer of Oxygen
- Keeling Curve: Studies of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
- Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
- Moses Gomberg and Organic Free Radicals
- Neil Bartlett and the Reactive Noble Gases
- Plutonium-238 Production for Space Exploration
- Separation of Rare Earth Elements by Charles James
- Willard Libby and Radiocarbon Dating
Industrial Advances
- Acetyl Chemicals from Coal Gasification
- Birth of the Petrochemical Industry
- Charles Herty and the Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory
- Commercial Processes for Making Calcium Carbide and Acetylene
- Commercialization of Radiation Chemistry
- Development of the Beckman pH Meter
- Development of the Pennsylvania Oil Industry
- Electrolytic Production of Bromine
- Fluid Bed Reactor
- High Performance Carbon Fibers
- Houdry Process for Catalytic Cracking
- Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing
- Penicillin Production through Deep-tank Fermentation
- Polypropylene and High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
- Production and Commercialization of Aluminum
- Raney® Nickel: A Life-Changing Catalyst
- Sohio Acrylonitrile Process
- U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program
- The Vitamin B Complex
- Wallace Carothers and the Development of Nylon
Medical Miracles
- Albert Szent-Györgyi's Discovery of Vitamin C
- Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine
- Carl and Gerty Cori and Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Creation of the Mexican Steroid Hormone Industry, 1938–1945
- Development of Diagnostic Test Strips
- Discovery and Development of Penicillin
- Discovery of Camptothecin and Taxol
- Discovery of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV
- Discovery of Ivermectin
- Insulin Development and Commercialization
- The Invention of Warfarin
- NMR and MRI: Applications in Chemistry and Medicine
- Nucleic Acid and Protein Chemistry Research at Rockefeller University
- Percy Julian: Synthesis of Physostigmine
- Production and Distribution of Radioisotopes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Saul Hertz and the Medical Uses of Radioiodine
- Selman Waksman and Antibiotics
- Tagamet: Discovery of Histamine H2-Receptor Antagonists
- The Vitamin B Complex
Pioneers
- Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine
- Bettye Washington Greene, Ph.D.
- George Washington Carver: Chemist, Teacher, Symbol
- Marie Maynard Daly
- Percy Julian: Synthesis of Physostigmine
- Rachel Holloway Lloyd, Pioneer American Woman in Chemistry
- St. Elmo Brady, the First African-American Ph.D. in Chemistry'
U.S. Landmarks are listed alphabetically by state.