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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



and Plastics Chemistry ; Petroleum Chemistry ; 

 Physical Chemistry ; Polymer Chemistry ; Rub- 

 ber Chemistry; Water and Waste Chemistry. 

 Committees: Committees of the Council: 

 Council Policy Committee ; Nominations and 

 Elections ; Chemical Education ; Constitution 

 and Bylaws ; Local Section Activities ; Mem- 

 bership Affairs ; National Meetings and Di- 

 visional Activities ; Professional Relations and 

 Status ; Publications ; Admissions ; Air Pollu- 

 tion ; Analytical Reagents ; Annual Report on 

 Atomic Weights ; Nomenclature, Spelling, and 

 Pronunciation; Professional Training; Stand- 

 ardization Relations ; Women's Service. Com- 

 mittees of the Board: Awards and Recognitions ; 

 Corporation Associates ; Education and Stu- 

 dents ; Finance ; Grants and Fellowships ; Public, 

 Professional and Member Relations ; Publica- 

 tions ; Advisory to the Chemical Corps ; Civil 

 Defense ; Clinical Chemistry ; Editors, ACS 

 Journals ; Education Liaison and Advisory 

 Panel ; Exchanges ; Frasch Foundation Awards ; 

 Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board. 

 Special Committees: Building Committee; 

 Investments Committee; Paper; Pension Com- 

 mittee ; Planning, Building Fund Campaign. 



Purpose: To encourage in the broadest and 

 most liberal manner the advancement of chem- 

 istry in all its branches ; to promote research in 

 chemical science and industry ; to improve the 

 qualifications and usefulness of chemists through 

 high standards of professional ethics, education, 

 and attainments ; to increase and diffuse chemical 

 knowledge ; and by its meetings, professional 

 contacts, reports, papers, discussions, and pub- 

 lications, to promote scientific interests and 

 inquiry, thereby fostering public welfare and 

 education, aiding the development of the coun- 

 try's industries, and adding to the material 

 prosperity and happiness of its people. 



Membership: Member, Senior Grade, ade- 

 quate collegiate training in chemistry or chem- 

 ical engineering, or its equivalent, and five years 

 of graduate training or experience in some form 

 of chemical or chemical engineering work ; how- 

 ever, only two years of postgraduate study or 

 experience are required from those who have 

 studied in a department of chemistry or chemical 

 engineering approved by the ACS and who 

 have been certified by the head of the depart- 

 ment as having completed the course recom- 

 mended by the Society; furthermore, an un- 

 certified graduate with a bachelor's degree from 

 a non-approved institution who subsequently 

 obtains a master's degree from an approved 

 institution may be admitted to full membership 

 at the end of two years following the granting 

 of this degree. Member, Junior Grade, adequate 

 basic training but insufficient graduate study and 

 experience for Member, Senior Grade, or in- 

 adequate training but engaged in chemical work. 



Emeritus, member for thirty-five continuous 

 years or over who is retired from active busi- 

 ness, teaching, or professional activity or who is 

 over seventy years of age. Student Affiliate, a 

 student in good standing majoring in chemistry 

 of chemical engineering and regularly uiatric- 

 ulated in a technical school, college, or uni- 

 versity authorized to grant degrees, who has not 

 taken a baccalaureate degree in chemical or 

 chemical engineering and who has been duly 

 nominated by two members of the ACS, one 

 of whom is an instructor in the institution he 

 attends. Corporation Associate, any reputable 

 firm, association, corporation, or institution or 

 one or more subdivisions thereof desiring to 

 support the program of the Society, particularly 

 the expansion and improvement of the publica- 

 tions which are not self-supporting. Junior and 

 Senior Grade Members, 90,011 ; Life Members, 

 1 1 ; Emeritus Members, 747 ; Corporation Asso- 

 ciates, 464; Student Affiliates, 6,282. Total 

 membership 97,515. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Petroleum Research 

 Fund, $70,000,000 charitable trust fund to sup- 

 port fundamental research and advance scientific 

 education in the petroleum field, which may in- 

 clude any field of pure science that may afford 

 a basis for subsequent research directly con- 

 nected with the petroleum field. National, Re- 

 gional, Local Section and Divisional Awards: 

 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, to 

 recognize and encourage outstanding contribu- 

 tions to research in organic chemistry, estab- 

 lished 1959, sponsored by Organic Syntheses, 

 Inc., Organic Reactions, Inc., and the Division 

 of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical 

 Society; American Chemical Society .\ward for 

 Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 

 to recognize and encourage creative work in 

 synthetic organic chemistry, established 1955, 

 sponsored by the Synthetic Organic Chemical 

 Manufacturers Association ; American Chem- 

 ical Society Award for Nuclear Applications 

 in Chemistry, to recognize, encourage, and 

 stimulate isotopic applications in chemistry, 

 established 1953, sponsored by the Nuclear- 

 Chicago Corporation ; American Chemical So- 

 ciety Award in Biological Chemistry, to stimu- 

 late fundamental research in biological chemistry 

 by young chemi.sts working in the colleges and 

 universities and other nonprofit institutions of 

 the United States, established 1934, sponsored 

 by Eli Lilly & Company ; American Chemical 

 Society Award in Chemical Instrumentation, to 

 recognize and encourage achievement in origina- 

 tion, improvement, or application of instrumental 

 methods of chemical analysis, established 1953 

 by Beckman Instruments, Inc., since 1959 spon- 

 sored by E. H. Sargent & Company ; American 

 Chemical Society Award in Industrial and 



