American membership

Although the majority of members of AChemS are Americans, membership is open to colleagues from other countries. 

Tables 27-1 to 27-3 have concentrated on the personnel makeup of control agencies. For a broader look at places of employment. Table 27-4 shows where 8037 members of the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA) of the United States and Canada worked in 1982. (This list includes foreign as well as domestic members of APCA but does not include the membership of the air pollution control associations of other countries.) This table shows that only 10.7% of the members work in control agencies. This table gives a somewhat distorted picture because in many air pollution organizations only the senior executive, professional, and scientific personnel belong to APCA, whereas the total North American workforce in air pollution includes several times the 8037 membership total who are in junior, technical, service, or manual sectors and are not association members. These numbers could be still greater if those engaged in this work outside North America were included. The Air Pollution Control Association changed its name to the Air and Waste Management Association in 1988. The Air and Waste Management Association had a membership of over 14,000 in 1993, but only a portion of the members were active in the air pollution profession.

His broad public service included membership on the National Research Council s Committee on Chemical Industry, Chemical and Engineering News Editorial Advisory Board, the American Chemical Society s Committee on Science, and numerous other posts. 

Racial/ethnic group membership was expected to be an important factor in an individual s level of trust of these institutions. Controlling for gender, age, education, and income, African Americans were about 40% less likely than whites to trust universities Asians and Hispanics were nearly twice as likely as whites to trust the federal government. However, race/ethnicity was not a factor in trust in the pharmaceutical industry nor in trust in health organizations. 

The American Chemistry Council s Responsible Care Security Code is designed to encourage continuous improvement in security performance by using a risk-based approach to identify, assess, and address vulnerabilities prevent or mitigate incidents enhance training and response capabilities and maintain and improve relationships with key stakeholders. As a condition of membership in the council, each member company must implement the Security Code for facilities, transportation and value chain, and cyber security. 

Responding to an evident need and at the request of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Standards Association initiated Project B31 in March 1926, with ASME as sole administrative sponsor. The breadth of the field involved required that membership of the Sectional Committee be drawn from some 40 engineering societies, industries, government bureaus, institutes, and trade associations. 

Bill was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970, he was chairman of its Chemistry Section during 1977-1981, and he was member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1951 and 1966, a National Science Foundation Senior Fellowship in 1958, and a Miller Research Professorship at Berkeley in 1963. His numerous honors from the American Chemical Society include the California Section Award in 1959, the Ernest Guenther Award in 1973, and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 1990. Among the international recognitions Bill received are a U.S. Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux, two Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Awards, and an honorary membership in Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. 

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ANSI has served in its capacity as administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system for 80 years. The Institute is a private, nonprofit membership organization supported by a diverse constituency of private and public sector organizations. ANSI Z21.83 has been published and provides a means of testing and certifying the safety of stationary fuel cell power plants having a capacity of less than 1 MW. 

Differences in data collection practices make reliance on federal figures problematic. For example, some data on African American chemists are reported for U.S. citizens and permanent visas for certain years, while other data are reported for U.S bom citizens for different years. Unfortunately, some data are reported for academic years, while others are presented for calendar years. Moreover, some data are aggregated as the physical sciences, while other data are disaggregated by discipline. Some professional societies report data based only on their membership. To the extent possible, 1 shall report the most recent, complete data available on U.S. bom citizens. 

Several interviewees saw the two professional organization as complimentary. One Cohort III interviewee said I think there is a need for both ACS and NOBCChE. I don t think membership in one should exclude the other. I wouldn t say that ACS is that conservative because it has elected a black president... That speaks for itself... There are no racial barriers in ACS. To date. Hill (1975-1977) is the only known African American to serve as a president of ACS. In November 2004, an African American, Isaiah Warner, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, was a contender for the presidentelect. He was opposed by F. Sherwood Rowland, Bren Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine and... 

In 1785, nine years before his arrival in the United States, Priesdey had been elected to foreign membership m the American Philosophical Society. His famous chemical researches carried out in England were often discussed m early meetings of that Society (67). After his arrival in Pennsylvania Priestley participated actively in the affairs of the... 

Many resources were used to compile the information in this book. The hazardous chemicals listed here are taken from Sittig, 4th Edition. For a few chemicals in Sittig, their makers are not listed, perhaps because they are made in such limited quantities that they are sold through specialty middlemen and catalog houses. The primary resources for preparing the list of manufacturers in this book were (1) the Web sites of the companies, (2) membership in special sections of United States chemical societies, the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and societies in India, Japan, Asia, Italy and elsewhere, and (3) sites in which companies register themselves as producers of particular products, such as the Thomas Directories in the U.S. and Europe, the American Chemical Society ChemCyclopedia, and the British Chemical Industries Association Chemextra. Direct access to these sites are quickly available to any Internet user. They are listed in Section VII - Hotlines, Databases and Useful Web Sites. 

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Paul Emmett received numerous honorary degrees, awards, and medals in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His name has been immortalized through the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis administered by the Catalysis Society of North America. With over 150 research publications during his lifetime, Emmett was for 10 years an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. His membership in the ACS spanned over 60 years, and he served as a Councilor from the Pittsburgh section during the early 1950s. Emmett attended the very first Gordon Research Conference in 1931 and occupied a front row seat at each of the GRC Conferences on Catalysis until his death. Twice he served as chairman of that annual conference. 

The national standards system in the USA differs in many respects from the British, in particular the organisation which publishes the standards of most interest, ASTM International, is not the official national standards body having ISO membership. That function is fulfilled by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). 

Added to the confusion is the right of a church to determine its membership. Some chapters of the NAC say that anyone, even non-Indians, may be members of the church and participate in their ceremonies. Others restrict membership to Native Americans only. They may do this legally as the civil rights laws do not apply to churches. 

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