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PRAISE FOR BUSH

ACS PRESIDENT E. ANN NALley hosted a Presidential Symposium, Ensuring the Future: Sustaining and Strengthening Basic and Applied Research, on March 26, the first day of the ACS national meeting in Atlanta. Raymond L. Orbach, director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, said that this a particularly auspicious time for the physical sciences. He told the audience: You should be as excited as I was at the President's State of the Union speech. To hear a president identify science and technology with the quality of life we have enjoyed since World War II was thrilling. It is now up to us to justify this confidence. Orbach called President George W. Bush's proposal to double the funding of physical sciences over 10 years a historic opportunity for our country and a renaissance for science. Orbach outlined a number of major projects the Office of Science is supporting. Michael S. Turner, assistant director for ...

Letter From ACS President William Carroll

Letter From ACS President William Carroll

CLAYTON CALLIS IS DEAD AT 81

CLAYTON F. CALLIS, WHO served the national American Chemical Society and its St. Louis Section in elected offices for nearly 50 years, including as ACS president in 1989, died on March 9 at the age of 81. Callis served ACS on dozens of committees and was a member of the ACS Board of Directors from 1977 through 1990 and chair of the board of directors in 1982 and 1983. His national service also included stints as chair of the ACS Society Committee on Chemical Abstracts Service and of the Society Committee on Budget & Finance. He started his service in the St. Louis Section in 1958 and went on to become chair of the section in 1962. He received the St. Louis Section Award in 1971. Callis retired in 1985 from Monsanto, where he was director of RD he was also a member of ...

Robert Young, MD, Takes Office as New ACS President

Robert Young, MD, Takes Office as New ACS President

Celebrating Chemistry and Art: National Chemistry Week 2001

For the year 2001 the theme of National Chemistry Week, the American Chemical Society’s annual outreach program, is “Celebrating Chemistry and Art.” Various examples of chemists who also made contributions to music, literature, and poetry are presented. The relationship of chemistry to such visual arts as painting, sculpture, photography, and art conservation is discussed. Useful resource articles are also cited. The history of National Chemistry Day, the brainchild of 1989 ACS President George C. Pimentel, and its successor, National Chemistry Week, are briefly discussed, as well as the desirability of a change in date because of competition from election news in the media. The new date for NCW, beginning in 2002, is announced for the first time.

Don't miss the opportunity to... Meet the ACS President

Don't miss the opportunity to... Meet the ACS President

Attila E. Pavlath wins ACS presidential race

Attila E. Pavlath has been elected American Chemical Society president-elect for 2000. Pavlath will serve as ACS president in 2001 and as a member of the ACS Board of Directors from 2000 to 2002. Pavlath, lead scientist in the Process Chemistry & Engineering Unit of the Department of Agriculture's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., received 13,795 votes. The other candidate, Alan Schriesheim, director emeritus of Argonne National Laboratory, received 12,709 votes. Of the 152,308 ballots that were mailed to ACS members, just under 18% were cast with proper signatures and envelopes. Of the 26,891 valid ballots cast in the presidential race, 376 indicated neither candidate, and 11 indicated votes for both candidates. Pavlath has served on numerous national ACS governance bodies, including the ACS Board of Directors since 1991. He has also served as chair of the Committees on Professional & Member Relations, Membership Affairs, Economic Status, and Local Section Activities and has ...

FOUNDATION OF POLYMER SCIENCE

The American Chemical Society and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) jointly designated the foundation of polymer science by German chemist Hermann Staudinger (1881-1965) as an International Historic Chemical Landmark at a ceremony in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on April 19. During the ceremony, GDCh President Erhard Meyer-Galow and ACS President Ed Wasserman unveiled a memorial plaque, which will be installed at Hermann Staudinger House, the home of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in Freiburg. Staudinger established the institute in the chemistry department at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in January 1940. The institute, which is now an independent university institute, was the first European research institute devoted exclusively to polymer research. The inscription on the plaque reads: This building is named after Hermann Staudinger, who, between 1926 and 1956, carried out his pathbreaking research on macromolecular chemistry in Freiburg. His theories on the polymer structures of ...

Symposium Celebrates 25 Years Of Cope Awards

A 'Who's Who' of organic chemismtry, truly international in scope is how American Chemical Society President Ed Wasserman described the 22 chemists who over the years have won the Arthur C. Cope Award. Wasserman spoke at the 25th anniversary celebration of the award held at the ACS national meeting in Anaheim last month. The symposium was designed to honor and commemorate the legacy of Arthur said William R. Roush, a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who organized the event for the Division of Organic Chemistry. Cope, a former ACS president and chairman of the board, left half of his estate to the society to advance research and education in organic chemistry. Wonderful science has been accomplished through Cope's legacy to ACS, Roush said. That legacy also has extended to the training and nurturing of young scientists, he noted. Fourteen of the 19 living Cope medalists—including two Nobel Laureates— ...

Breslow brings insights, new chemistry book to New York City's Stuyvesant High School

A crowd of approximately 100 students at New York City's Stuyvesant High School filed into a school auditorium Dec. 19, 1996, to hear a special presentation on chemistry from ACS President (now past-president) Ronald Breslow. Each student who attended the lecture received a copy of Breslow's new book, Chemistry Today and Tomorrow: The Central, Useful, and Creative Science. But Breslow's talk helped bring the book's contents alive for the students who are enrolled in one of the nation's premiere public schools—one that specializes in mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, and technology. Chemists try to extend the natural world, Breslow, a professor of chemistry at Columbia University, explained to the students. He talked about chemistry's creativity and centrality as a science, citing as an example chemistry's role in understanding and solving global health problems such as the human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS epidemic, and the fact that all of biology is beginning to be explained in term...

PEOPLE

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVPeopleNEXTPEOPLEFormer ACS President Gardner Stacy diesLINDA RUBERCite this: Chem. Eng. News 1995, 73, 19, 50Publication Date (Print):May 8, 1995Publication History Published online12 November 2010Published inissue 8 May 1995https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v073n019.p050Copyright © 1995 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views64Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (177 KB) SUBJECTS:Cancer,Chemistry education,Energy,Vinyl Get e-Alerts

Ned Heindel chosen ACS president-elect

In one of the closest American Chemical Society elections in recent years—decided by a margin of 182 votes out of 29,046 cast—Ned D. Heindel has been chosen as 1993 president-elect. Heindel is H. S. Bunn Professor (of chemistry) at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., and adjunct professor of diagnostic radiology at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He will serve as ACS president in 1994, and as a member of the ACS Board of Directors from 1993 to 1995. Heindel has been a member of the ACS Board since 1985, and is in the second year of his third consecutive three-year term as Region III director. (A special election will be held soon to fill the Region III post he vacates.) He is a member of the board's Executive Committee, its Committee on Grants & Awards, and the Society Committee on Chemical Abstracts Service, and he chairs the Society Committee on Publications and the C&EN ...

Callis wins ACS presidential election

American Chemical Society members have elected Clayton F. Callis as 1988 president-elect. Callis will serve as ACS president in 1989 and as a member of the ACS Board of Directors from 1988 to 1990. Four other directors were elected to serve three-year terms on the ACS Board, and three amendments to the ACS constitution were ratified by the membership. Since his 1985 retirement as director of environmental operations for Monsanto Fibers & Intermediates Co., Callis, 64, has been vice president of Chelan Associates, a St. Louis-based environmental consulting firm. Currently a director-atlarge on the ACS Board, he has served in a number of ACS governance positions during the past several years. He has been a member of the board since 1977, served as its chairman in 1982 and 1983, and is a member of the board's Executive Committee. He is also currently chairman of the Society Committee on Chemical Abstracts Service and serves on the ...

Chemical Community Leaders Look At Change

The chemical community has become engulfed by change. As a result, it is having to feel its way as it approaches the 21st century. Engaging in that process in separate but aptly titled forums, chemical community leaders recently sought to analyze some of the effects of changes taking place in the chemical industry, chemical R&D, and chemical education. One occasion was the presidential plenary session at the American Chemical Society's national meeting earlier this month in New York City. Titled Chemistry 2000: The Times Are A'Changin', that session was chaired by ACS president and University of California, Berkeley, chemistry professor George C. Pimentel. The other was a symposium—Petrochemicals on the Gulf Coast in the 90s—Survival Tactics—held a week earlier in New Orleans at the spring national meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Change is all about. The petrochemical industry is experiencing it particularly acutely, but it is being felt by the broader ...

Prestige vs. Practicality in selecting the first president of ACS

Prestige vs. Practicality in selecting the first president of ACS

Universities and the federal government: a marriage that has survived

One of the highest honors bestowed by the American Chemical Society is its Charles Lathrop Parsons Award. Given usually once every two years, it recognizes outstanding public service by members of the society. Past winners include James Conant, Glenn Seaborg, Russell Peterson, and William O. Baker. This year's recipient is Charles G. Overberger {C&EN, July 17, page 20). Active in IUPAC and ACS—he was ACS president in 1967 and chaired the society's Committee on Chemistry & Public Affairs from 1973 to 1977—Overberger has long been deeply involved in applying chemical research and chemical knowledge to world problems. The veteran polymer chemist received the award at a dinner in Washington, D.C., last week. Currently vice president for research for the University of Michigan and head of the school's Macromolecular Research Center, his address was on something very close to his prog fessional heart—the link between the federal government and the universities. Following is the text ...

ACS President to meet with nine foreign society heads

ACS President to meet with nine foreign society heads

The ACS President's Dinner

The ACS President's Dinner

Arthur C. Cope, ACS President for 1961

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVPeopleNEXTArthur C. Cope, ACS President for 1961Cite this: Chem. Eng. News 1961, 39, 1, 72–78Publication Date (Print):January 2, 1961Publication History Published online6 November 2010Published inissue 2 January 1961https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v039n001.p072Copyright © 1960 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views8Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (1 MB) SUBJECTS:Organic compounds,Undergraduates Get e-Alerts