Thirty-five chemists met at the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York on April 6, 1876, to found the American Chemical Society. Seven months later, the first president of the newly formed ...
In September 1920, two professors attending the American Chemical Society national meeting in a sweltering Chicago gymnasium went outside for a breath of fresh air. Edgar Fahs Smith and Charles Albert ...
As the American Chemical Society enters its 150th year, C&EN recalls just some of the society’s illustrious roster of ...