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The chemist has perhaps felt himself to be more a 

 part of industry than have other scientists. In contrast 

 with some other groups he was early engaged as a 

 consultant and as an active worker on manufacturing 

 problems. The pure and the applied scientist in this 

 field have worked together more harmoniously and each 

 has been more willing to credit the other with his con- 

 tributions than in other countries or among other 

 sciences in the United States. Perhaps the advances 

 which it was able to bring about in the early days had 

 much to do with attracting industry to the potentialities 

 of applied chemistry and thus gave it something of a 

 running start in its service to the manufacturer. 

 Further and careful consideration of the types of prob- 

 lems upon which most manufacturers wish assistance 

 seems to indicate that chemistry is and promises to 

 continue to be one of the greatest possible aids. 



It must be remembered too that the consulting 

 chemist really pioneered in the specialty of being the 

 someone to whom industry coidd go for assistance, and 

 that the earliest popularization or humanization of 

 science was done by chemists. All this must have had 

 an influence on the trend that has resulted in so large 

 a proportion of all those in industrial research having 

 been trained as chemists. May there not also be some 

 relation between the training of these men, who early 

 leani analytical methods, learn how to distinguish 

 between the important and the unimportant, how to 

 watch for those small differences that so greatly 

 dctennine final results, and the alert inquiring mind 

 that characterizes the successful chemist? 



Trends are influenced by public demands for improved 

 and new products, by the success of new techniques, by 

 competitive situations that call for the production of 

 better materials and ways to circumvent the restric- 

 tions of monopoly, whether in the control of sources of 

 raw materials or in the patented control of materials 

 and processes, and by public opinion in many direc- 

 tions. The type of work discussed here is certain to 

 continue as long as consumers are dissatisfied with 

 present materials, as long as there is a demand for a 

 greater variety of manufactured products and for 

 sometliing new, and as long as the scientist himself is 

 motivated by the desire to know why things behave as 

 they do. Chemistry applied in industry is in only the 

 initial phase of its development. 



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