Louis Hammett deserved a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for making quantitative the relation between rate constants and acidity constants of benzoic acids. His equation established organic chemistry as a science with regularities, rather than only a collection of observations and preparations. His 1940 monograph, <i>Physical Organic Chemistry</i>, was instrumental in giving a name to this field and establishing its credibility. The resulting predictability of reactivity represents a benefit to humanity.<br/>

Hammett deserved a Nobel prize

251st National Meeting (2016)

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