University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 28, 1973
Attitudes on Science Irk Chemist
The president of the American Chemical Society, Alan Clark Nixon, said yesterday that the attitude of the government toward science was very poor. The President pays only lip service to the importance of science, he said.
"He always acts as though he doesn't know anything about it," said Nicki, who is a lawyer.
Nixon said he favored a department of science and technology in the presidential cabinet. All scientific projects would go through this office, be said.
The United States is competing with the world scientifically, Nixon said, and unless
the chemists in the United States have had employment problems.
Nixon said he hoped to make the ACS, the largest scientific society devoted to a single discipline, a more professional, educational and scientific organization. The ACS publishes 17 journals, short courses, on tape on tape and radio programs, he said.
The ACS has tried to get legislation in Congress to provide jobs for chemists in their own fields, Nixon said, so that they could keep up with the latest developments in chemistry. A similar attempt was made in California.
Nixon said that the National Science Foundation (NSF) was now responsible for governmental science policy because the adviser had been abolished by the President.
Chemists will be needed to solve the energy crisis, Energy problems in turn create environmental problems that will have to be solved by chemists, he said.
The NSE supports basic research, he said, but it doesn't have the necessary broad background.
had helped form the Committee of Scientific Society Presidents, which has 23 members from major U.S. science societies. At the last meeting of the committee, which meets each year at the U.S. Association approved the concept of a summer study by the American Physical Society.
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The opportunity for employment of chemistry students is improving, Nixon said. Job opportunities will probably improve within the next decade. However, this will depend
on what the government does about the energy crisis, he said.
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Employment opportunities have been bad for the past five years for chemists. An ACS survey, he said, shows that nine per cent of
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Prof Gets Chemical Award
Herbert S. Gutowsky, professor of chemistry and director of the School of Chemical Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana, received the 1973 American Chemical Society Midwest Award in Chemistry last night at an awards banquet of the 9th Midwest ACS Regional Meeting in the Kansas Union.
Gutkowsky received the award for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of chemistry as an educator, administrator and researcher. He is also sponsored by the Mallinckrodt Foundation.
Gutowsky was honored for the being first person to detect and develop the concepts of chemical shift and spin-s coupling, one of the most important advances in chemistry in the last two decades.
The awards banquet ended the first day of the two-day meeting, which was attended by members of the organization.
A symposium on multidisciplinary chemical approaches to the study of the brain was to begin at 8:30 a.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium. Two symposiums on the study of enzyme actions and on new topics for chemical curriculum are scheduled to begin
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Expositions of scientific equipment will be on display from 10 a.m., until 2 p.m. in the main exhibition hall.
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