Nobel Prize–awarding institution receives an ACS HIST award plaque honoring the discovery of nuclear fission

On March 20, the American Chemical Society's Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) presented a 2023 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award plaque to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The award honors the 1939 Nature paper in which Lise Meitner and Otto R. Frisch first described the theory behind nuclear fission. Established in 2006, the Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award program recognizes historical journal articles, books, and patents that have advanced the field of chemistry. "This award identifies, honors, and celebrates specific discoveries," says Jeffrey I. Seeman, the founder and administrator of this award program. HIST has given out 87 awards so far, issuing plaques to sites in 17 countries. Plaques are given to the departments or institutions where the scientists were based when they made their discovery. The Stockholm plaque honors Meitner; a duplicate plaque for the work was given to the University of Copenhagen in