At the National Meeting

Article Abstract:

The American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting, 2000, in San Francisco is reviewed with attention to three favorites. The first is the presentation of Bruce Ames of the Univ. of California (Berkeley) on the causes and prevention of cancer and the synthetic chemical distraction. He maintained that pollution is a red herring, that avoiding tobacco and fats would do more good than other approaches, and that nutrition research is the place to put money. Director of Patents and Trademarks and Undersecretary of Commerce Q. Todd Dickinson discussed the activities under his purview and a fully searchable Web site, www.uspto.gov. New synthetic methods involving 9-borabicyclo(3.3.1)nonane were discussed by two graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico, Jorge Justo de Pomar and Iveliz Kock-Montesino, students of John Soderquist.

Puerto Rico, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Prevention, Telecommunications systems, Cancer, Cancer prevention, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Organic compounds, Organic compound synthesis, American Chemical Society

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All innovation is not created equal

Article Abstract:

Most people who built the world of chemistry are not cited in laypersons' magazines, such as 'American Heritage,' which recently listed the top 20 American innovators of the 20th century and included only two chemists, one of them a biochemist. Chemists and chemistry may have a poor public image, and it seems most Americans don't associate things they use with chemists who created them. Chemistry is said to be the central science and gives birth to vast numbers of products, but is a gradual science, as well. Ninety percent or more of the chemistry known today was developed in the 20th century, but chemical developments tend to be incremental or layered and not attributed to one person or team.

Management, Achievements and awards, Chemists, Technological innovations, Public relations, Chemistry, 20th century AD, Chemical research, American Heritage (Periodical), Creative thinking

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Where's the innovation?

Article Abstract:

This editorial discusses the data contained in a recent survey by the Industrial Research Institute. The article explains that looking into company's R&D expenditure as a percentage of sales and as dollars spent per employee gives a better idea about company's commitment for innovation.

Analysis, Innovations, Industrial research, Chemical industry, Sales

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