American Chemical Society
Founded in
1876, the
American Chemical Society, ACS for short, is "a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 163,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of
chemistry. The organization provides a broad range of opportunities for peer interaction and career development, regardless of professional or scientific interests". ACS holds bi-annual national meetings covering the whole of chemistry, plus dozens of smaller conferences in specific fields. Its publications division produces some two dozen first-rate scholarly
journals (the oldest of them ,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, was established 125 years ago) and several book series.
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