America the fair?(Column) From: Chemistry and Industry | Date: February 2, 1998| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1998 Society of Chemical Industry. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Chemical & Engineering News, the magazine of the American Chemical Society, polled its readers on who were the 75 most influential chemists of the past 75 years. Last month it published the results. The vast majority of the 75 were Americans, with Britons next, although there were only six of them on the list: Derek Barton, Francis Crick, Dorothy Hodgkin, Christopher Ingold, Robert Robinson and Geoffrey Wilkinson.

The brief for selecting this pantheon of chemical worthies was that they should be 'distinguished contributors to the chemical ...

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