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<html> <head> <title>American Chemical Society</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/org/790/000055625/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> American Chemical Society PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION Founded 1876. Official Website: <a href="http://www.acs.org/">http://www.acs.org/</a> Founding Date: 1876<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/000/000117646/">Roger Adams</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1971</tt></td> <td>Organic chemist at Illinois</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/874/000126496/">Arnold A. Allemang</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>EVP of Dow Chemical, 2000-04</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/983/000113644/">Julius Axelrod</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Research of neurotransmitters</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000094081/">Leo Baekeland</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1944</tt></td> <td>Father of plastics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000100282/">Derek Barton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1998</tt></td> <td>Conformational analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/268/000172749/">Frederick M. Bernthal</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Universities Research Association</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000129690/">Konrad Bloch</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-2000</tt></td> <td>Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/804/000100504/">Paul D. Boyer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>ATP process</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000172750/">Wallace R. Brode</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1974</tt></td> <td>Absorption spectra of dyes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000100325/">Herbert C. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Discovered organoboranes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000128972/">Stephanie A. Burns</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Dow Corning</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000100245/">Melvin Calvin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1997</tt></td> <td>Deciphered photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/721/000168217/">Donald M. Carlton</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Radian Corporation, 1969-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000117319/">Wallace Hume Carothers</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1937</tt></td> <td>Inventor of Nylon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000128650/">Thomas W. Cole, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Clark Atlanta, 1989-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000168506/">Karl T. Compton</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1954</tt></td> <td>Bikini Island atomic tests</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000167449/">William D. Coolidge</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1975</tt></td> <td>Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/973/000168469/">Harry Coover</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-2011</tt></td> <td>Invented Super Glue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000128748/">Carl Cori</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1984</tt></td> <td>Catalytic conversion of glycogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000128757/">Gerty Cori</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1957</tt></td> <td>Catalytic conversion of glycogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000180149/">F. Albert Cotton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-2007</tt></td> <td>Metal-metal bonds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000130742/">Frederick G. Cottrell</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Smokestack filters to fight pollution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/206/000165708/">George A. Cowan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-2012</tt></td> <td>Founder, Santa Fe Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000100371/">Donald J. Cram</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-2001</tt></td> <td>Synthesis of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/105/000165607/">Herbert Dow</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1930</tt></td> <td>Founder of Dow Chemical</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000167232/">John William Draper</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1882</tt></td> <td>Radiant energy and portrait photography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000132700/">Gertrude B. Elion</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/598/000100298/">Paul J. Flory</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1985</tt></td> <td>Studied polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000165609/">Marye Anne Fox</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UC San Diego</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/406/000227722/">Joseph S. Francisco</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Atmospheric chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000072110/">James Franck</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1964</tt></td> <td>Franck-Hertz experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000165648/">Alice P. Gast</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Lehigh University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/126/000165628/">Gregory L. Geoffroy</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Iowa State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000100139/">William F. Giauque</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1982</tt></td> <td>Adiabatic demagnetization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000165601/">Mary L. Good</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000139865/">Robert H. Grubbs</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metathesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000166312/">H. Tracy Hall</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-2008</tt></td> <td>Synthetic diamonds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000254181/">Richard F. Heck</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-2015</tt></td> <td>Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/224/000099924/">Jacobus H. van 't Hoff</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1911</tt></td> <td>Three-dimensional molecular properties</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000100353/">Roald Hoffmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Woodward-Hoffmann reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000129926/">Robert W. Holley</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1993</tt></td> <td>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000167255/">Donald F. Hornig</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-2013</tt></td> <td>President of Brown University, 1970-76</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000160477/">Percy Julian</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1975</tt></td> <td>Physostigmine and cortisone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/659/000100359/">Jerome Karle</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-2013</tt></td> <td>X-Ray diffraction studies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/919/000058745/">Fred C. Koch</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Nov-1967</tt></td> <td>Founder, Koch Industries</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/912/000127531/">John A. Krol</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of DuPont, 1995-98</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/847/000165352/">Stephanie Kwolek</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-2014</tt></td> <td>Invented Kevlar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000079539/">Irving Langmuir</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1957</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the high-vacuum tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/799/000118445/">Rita Lavelle</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>EPA official</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/446/000169936/">John C. Lechleiter</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Eli Lilly</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/470/000100170/">Willard F. Libby</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1980</tt></td> <td>Carbon-14 dating technique</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000170710/">Alfred Lee Loomis</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1975</tt></td> <td>Millionaire scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/076/000208449/">Alan D. Lourie</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000100478/">Rudolph A. Marcus</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electron-transfer reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/647/000100347/">Bruce Merrifield</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-2006</tt></td> <td>Synthesized polypeptides</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000205112/">Thomas Midgley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Ethyl gasoline, Freon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000218566/">Chad Mirkin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>International Institute for Nanotechnology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000100493/">Mario J. Molina</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/638/000100338/">Stanford Moore</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1982</tt></td> <td>Amino-acid analyzer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000099911/">Robert S. Mulliken</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1986</tt></td> <td>Molecular orbital theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/944/000254182/">Ei-ichi Negishi</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000208428/">Pauline Newman</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/347/000129957/">Marshall W. Nirenberg</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-2010</tt></td> <td>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000100484/">George A. Olah</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Isolated carbonium ions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/579/000100279/">Lars Onsager</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1976</tt></td> <td>Fourth Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/883/000092607/">Wilhelm Ostwald</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1932</tt></td> <td>Ostwald's Law of Dilution and Conductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/148/000165650/">David W. Oxtoby</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Pomona College</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000031731/">Linus Pauling</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1994</tt></td> <td>Scientist and peacenik</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000165537/">John D. Petersen</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Tennessee System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000172182/">Jean Piccard</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1963</tt></td> <td>Extreme balloonist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000167188/">Kenneth S. Pitzer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1997</tt></td> <td>President of Rice University, 1961-68</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/990/000124618/">Frank Popoff</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Dow Chemical, 1987-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000100304/">Ilya Prigogine</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-2003</tt></td> <td>Theory of dissipative structures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000099957/">Theodore W. Richards</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1928</tt></td> <td>Atomic weights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/779/000399579/">Leon Burr Richardson</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1951</tt></td> <td>History of Dartmouth College</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/463/000221797/">Joaquin Ruiz</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Science Dean, University of Arizona</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000099965/">Paul Sabatier</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1941</tt></td> <td>Heterogeneous catalysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000139960/">Richard R. 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