Advanced Scientific Professionals

The completion of this volume marks the happy milestone for me of a 15-year editorial association with Academic Press. It is appropriate, therefore, to acknowledge the professionalism of the staff and management, as well as their manifold contributions to the success of these volumes. It also marks my embarkation on new and more challenging professional pursuits. These ultimately will allow more opportunity to continue to perform the editorial tasks associated with Advances in Clinical Chemistry, as well as other educational and scientific activities. 

ACGIH is a member-based organization and community of professionals that advances worker health and safety through education and the development and dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge. ... 

Etzkowitz et al. make another important statement in their paper Informal networks are indispensable to professional development, career advancement, and scientific progress. Contiguity of helpful colleagues improves the conditions for scientific achievement. Contiguity is the key. It is not just a... 

Another new factor has an important bearing on the great part now played by American science in influencing world opinion the great speed of modern communication. In its utilization for the dissemination of scientific information we are not ordinarily so much concerned with advances in radio, telephony, or even facsimile reproduction, as with air mail and microfilm reproduction. These facilities become instruments for the dissemination of scientific and technical information throughout the world in less time than formerly was required for communication between many European countries. Inevitably what scientists and professional societies do and say in America has, in 1950, a far greater and more immediate effect around the world than the corresponding Euro-... 

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The American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) is the national professional society of pharmacists and is located at 2215 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. The main phone number is (202) 628-4410 the main fax line is (202) 783-2351 the primary web address is www. aphanet.org. APhA also hosts a site for consumers with the address www.pharmacyandyou.org. Since its founding, APhA has been a leader in the professional and scientific advancement of pharmacy, and in safeguarding the well-being of the individual patient. 

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