Chemistry degrees

Dr. Akash Deep is a Scientist at CSIR- Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh. He received his Ph D (Chemistry) degree in 2004 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India after which he worked as a FCT postdoctoral research fellow at the chemical engineering department of... 

Fleck, A. See Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Alexander Fleck, Baron Fleck of Saltcoats, 17, 242 154 (1971). He received his chemistry degree in 1911 at Glasgow and remained with Soddy as an assistant until 1913. He stayed in close contact with Soddy for another 2 years. He then moved on to industry and had a very successful career, serving as chairman of ICI from 1953-1960. His papers on radioactivity were all single author publications. 

Kelvin temperature scale. The scale used in theoretical physics and chemistry. Degrees Kelvin (°K) is equal to degrees Centigrade (°C) plus 273. 

Currently, African Americans are severely underrepresented on the chemistry faculties of historically white colleges and universities. This is especially the case at highly selective research universities. Some critics argue that this situation may play a major role in the under production of doctoral chemistry degrees awarded to African Americans, especially at highly selective universities. 

Mendeleev soon got a post teaching mathematics and physics at an Odessa high school. Granted permission to use the library and laboratory at Novorossisk University, he launched into research for his master s thesis. By May of 1856 he had completed a first draft. He revised it during the summer and was awarded a master of physics and chemistry degree by the University of St. Petersburg in September. 

Fresh from college with a chemistry degree, I thought I had all the skills to excel in an entry-level position in the analytical chemistry lab of a pharmaceutical com<< ax i. But I soon discovered that I would be spending significant time writing reports. .. 

Moretto, A., Chemistry Degree Thesis, University of Padova Padova, Italy, (1998). 

Recovery of metals such as copper, the operation of batteries (cells) in portable electronic equipment, the reprocessing of fission products in the nuclear power industry and a very wide range of gas-phase processes catalysed by condensed phase materials are applied chemical processes, other than PTC, in which chemical reactions are coupled to mass transport within phases, or across phase boundaries. Their mechanistic investigation requires special techniques, instrumentation and skills covered here in Chapter 5, but not usually encountered in undergraduate chemistry degrees. Electrochemistry generally involves reactions at phase boundaries, so there are connections here between Chapter 5 (Reaction kinetics in multiphase systems) and Chapter 6 (Electrochemical methods of investigating reaction mechanisms). 

What about chemistry courses in the curriculum The question of whatconstitutes adequate educational preparation for the forensic science profession is a very controversial one. Almost without hesitation, when asked what background do you look for when you hire new personnel, the answer is a degree in chemistry. Yet, when pressed, this same individual will usually admit that there are a few things which were not covered in a Chemistry Degree that are valuable to forensic scientists. There is no doubt that a strong background preparation in Chemistry is essential. 

FIGURE 5.2 Chemistry degrees awarded in the United States, 1966 to 1997. SOURCE National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies, Science and Engineering Degrees 1966-97, NSF 00-310 (Author, Susan T. Hill), NSF, Arlington, VA, February 2000. 

The share of chemistry degrees earned by women shows a similar trend (Figure 5.6). We see a continuing increase in the number of women receiving chemistry degrees at all degree levels. In this case, however, we reach the arbitrary 20 percent mark much earlier. For B.S. chemists, who would typically be hired into industry at technician or junior professional levels, we hit 20 percent in 1974 for Ph.D.s, who are typically the degree level most often hired by industry, we reached that level in 1986. 

Maria Spinu, DuPont I think I am just optimistic. I really believe that in the future you will see a more realistic picture of the women chemists and what they have accomplished in a 20- or 30-year period. I know a lot of senior colleagues with wives who have earned a chemistry degree but have never practiced chemistry because they chose to follow their husbands to different locations to fulfill their husbands careers. I think these days we, the women, are much more career oriented as well. So, the 20-to 30-year picture is going to look different when we look at women chemists who started their careers in the 1980s and 1990s. 

FIGURE 6.1 Percentage of chemistry degrees earned by women from 1967 to 1999. SOURCE These figures are derived from the yearly starting salary surveys performed by the American Chemical Society. The figures for 1999 appeared in Chemical Engineering News, March 13, 2000. 

Food chemists work in universities, government laboratories, and major food companies. To become a food chemist, most undergraduates take a food science degree with courses in chemistry. It is also possible to become a food chemist with an undergraduate chemistry degree plus experience in the food industry. Students can specialize in food chemistry at the graduate level. 

A solvent keeps paint liquefied so that it can be applied to a surface easily. After the paint has been exposed to the air, the solvent evaporates and the paint dries. Product development chemists develop and improve products such as paints. To work in product development, they require at least one university chemistry degree. 

As students could obtain external degrees from the University of London, we find Battersea Polytechnic and Nottingham in the list, both offering London external B.Sc. (Chemistry) degrees during this time (as did Exeter, Northern Polytechnic, and others). In addition to those women chemists identifiable with a particular college, an additional 39 women had London chemistry degrees with no indication of their affiliated institution. 

Not to be confused with E. Eleanor Field, Ellen Field together with her spouse, Edgar Stedman,37 formed the most equal chemistry partnership of those we have studied. Of course, in those days, equal work was not reflected in equal status. Field was born on 29 October 1883 at Greenwich, Kent, the daughter of William Frederick Field, a labourer, and Ellen Bobey.37 She studied towards a chemistry degree at Goldsmiths College. 

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