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unusual facts about Chemical Society


Ida Freund

She was amongst the women who fought for admission to the Chemical Society in the early 1900s.


Manfred Baerns

From 1991 to 1997 he was member of the board DECHEMA (a scientific association of chemical technology, chemical engineering and biotechnology), and a permanent member of he German Chemical Society, the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, German Society for Coal, Oil and Gas, and finally the American Chemical Society.


see also

ACSI

Acta Chimica Slovenica, a peer-reviewed chemical journal published by the Slovenian Chemical Society

Alan G. Marshall

He is a fellow of the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received numerous awards, including the 2007 Chemical Pioneer Award, given by the American Institute of Chemists; the 2012 William H. Nichols Medal, given by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society; and the 2012 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, given by the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh.

Alfred Stock Memorial Prize

It is awarded annually by the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker).

Henry M. Fales

Fales received several awards including Chromatographer of the Year of the Washington Chromatography Discussion Group (1973), DHEW Superior Service Awards (1973, 1986), the Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington in 1977, and a Professional Service Award of Alpha Chi Sigma, Washington, D.C. (1988).

John Philip Wisser

He was a member of the Chemical Society of Berlin and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Leopold Koppel

Riehl, Nikolaus and Frederick Seitz Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb (American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundations, 1996) ISBN 0-8412-3310-1

Max Steenbeck

Riehl, Nikolaus and Frederick Seitz Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb (American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundations, 1996) ISBN 0-8412-3310-1.

Radio Day

In 1895, Popov gave the first public demonstration of radio as a tool before the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, using Sir Oliver Lodge's coherer as a lightning detector.

William Sparks

William J. Sparks (1905-1976), Exxon chemist and president of the American Chemical Society