Abstract
IFEEL COMPELLED TO APPLAUD VALERIE J. Kuck for her guest editorial in Science (C&EN, Feb. 28, page 3). It was succinct, insightful, and to the point. The status of women in science, and specifically in chemistry, has been an area of interest and concern to me ever since I received my Ph.D. in physical (nuclear) chemistry from Iowa State University more than 50 years ago. The advances women have made in pursuing careers in chemistry since that time are almost unbelievable. I described some of these amazing gains in the second half of my Priestley Medal address (C&EN, March 27,2000, page 36). I pointed out that in spite of remarkable gains, many problems still remained, one of them being the paucity of women with the rank of tenured professor on the chemistry faculties of our major research universities. In the 1970s and 1980s, I (and many others) believed that if we could just interest more ...
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