Paper selection inventions

Wentworth has been a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Solar Energy Society, and Alpha Chi Sigma. He has published over 125 papers, written three textbooks, and received numerous patents. One of the publications from his doctoral dissertation was selected as a pioneer paper in analytical chemistry. His papers on the chemical applications of nonlinear least squares became Citation Index Classics. His patent for pulse discharge ionization detectors was selected as one of the 100 most significant inventions of 1997. He retired after four decades of teaching and research, having about forty graduate students, half of whom received doctorates. The Robert A. Welch Foundation supported his efforts every year. 

So indeed, ever since the scheme was invented in 1997 there have been dozens of papers with a large impact (here is just a small selection) with algorithms performed including Grover [Jones 1998], Deutsch-Jozsa [Chuang 1998], Shor [Vandersypen 2001] recently and even teleportation [Nielsen 1998],... 

Barton and co-workers have developed a family of systems for oxidation and oxidative functionalization of alkanes under mild conditions exhibiting unusual selectivity (see reviews [50], polemics [50d,e], the first publication [51] and some recent publications[52], as well as the papers of other authors concerning these systems[53]). These oxidations occur in pyridine in the presence of an organic acid and are catalyzed by complexes of transition metals (mainly iron). If dioxygen is used as an oxidizing regent, a reductant must also take part in the reaction. The first such a system was invented in Gif-sur-Yvette [51]. Thus their name Gif systems. The systems with geographically based names are mentioned in Table IX.5. All Gif systems have the same chemical peculiarities ... 

Since the invention of polarography in 1922, more than 30,000 papers dealing with this technique have been published. Since more than 90% of those papers deal with practical applications, any choice of examples cannot be more than an indication of the possibilities the method offers. The following selection, which is necessarily subjective, was made with the aim of showing applications in a variety of fields. 

The invention of TS-1 created significant scientific interest. The material s unique properties and the resulting catalytic performance are beheved to be associated with the isolated titanium sites, which are highly active and selective in oxidation reactions with hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant. The scientists from the ENI group (3e,86,89) have since published more details about the material s synthesis and its physical and catalytic properties. However, as more than 600 papers were obtained when using TS-1 as a search keyword, we restrict our summary to only a small fraction of them, which we regard as essential papers from the early years (i.e., 1983-1995) and others that appeared in the subsequent 10-15 years. 

In the first paper on fluorocarbon polymers in this Symposium [Ij, Dr. Plunkett described the details about his discovery of polytetrafluoroethyl-ene scientific understanding about the polymer, and brief mention of a few recent studies. Even in this published version of the paper from the Syn sium, it is not feasible to cover the history in any sort of detail. Therefore, this paper can only outline the general background, with sufficient references to the literature so that detailed information will be readily accessible. The references, shown within r ], are selective, rather than exhaustive, leading the reader to some of the many people who made PTFE the important material it is. Usually a reference is made to a pioneering patent or paper rather than to many that followed. 

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