Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers

Milton C. Whitaker, On Our Opportunities, JIEC 6 (October 1914) 794. At the turn of the century, Whitaker (1870-1963) received his M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado and then joined the faculty at Columbia University. When he left the journal, he also left academia, first taking a position at U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company and eventually becoming an executive at American Cyanamid. He won both the Perkin Medal (1923) and Chandler Medal (1950) from the ACS he also worked on the Manhattan Project. M. C. Whitaker, Retired Chemist, [obituary] New York Times, April 4, 1963, p. 47. Until 1919, the industrial division s name was the Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers. 

The centennial of the ACS s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division marks a century of accomplishment during which one of humanity s grand technical achievements, the American chemical industry, grew to maturity. Driven by society s needs for goods and services that enhanced the quality-of-life, chemists and chemical engineers produced ever-more innovative products to economically meet these demands. 

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Inc. (I EC) celebrates the centennial of its establishment in 1908.1 EC was the first technical division established within ACS, and this volume is part of the commemorations marking this significant milestone at the 2008 New Orleans and Philadelphia National Meetings. The theme of the book is innovation and creativity in the chemical industry and related sectors, where industrial chemists and chemical engineers have made and are continuing to make major contributions. 

As it has in the past century, the chemists and chemical engineers of ACS s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division will continue to add to the story of innovation and enterprise that is die history of the American industrial gases industry. They and the industry they participate in will grow as they rise to meet the needs of 21 -century society. 

Ost s call for a return to practice, for a new stress to be placed on the teaching of inorganic chemistry, and for greater specialization did not, however, threaten Duisberg s concept of a strict division of labor between the chemists and the engineers. On the contrary, it provided the means to extend the lessons learned within dye plants to all chemical industries, thus allowing a simple transfer of the Duisberg model to take place from one plant to the next and from one branch of the chemical industry to another. 

American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), 278 American Crop Protection Association (ACPA), 267, 278 American Cyanamid Agricultural Products Division, See BASF Agricultural Products Group (US), 216 American Fiber Manufacturers Association, hic. (AFMA), 268 American Hydrogen Association (AHA), 268 American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), 278 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), 268 American Institute of Chemists, The (AIC), 268 American Methanol Institute (AMI), 268 American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS), 268 American Ordnance LLC, 216 American Pacific Corporation (AMPAC), 216 American Peptide Society (APS), 268... 

The American Chemical Society took pride in the role it had played in the recruitment of chemists for research on chemical warfare and it was largely responsible for the publication of the results of their work. A series of articles appeared in the widely read Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry designated as "Contributions from the Chemical Warfare Service," summarizing the techniques and findings useful to the wider study of chemistry (39). When the War Department attempted to abolish the Chemical Warfare Service in 1919, the ACS cooperated in a campaign of publicity about the work of the Chemical Warfare Service and contributed in a major way to its survival (40). Many chemists who formerly had worked in the Research Division delivered public addresses and wrote letters in support of the continuance of the Chemical Warfare Service to newspapers and to members of Congress. 

Starting Salaries 1996 reports starting wages by divisions of the chemical industry like plastics and pharmaceuticals. It also presents them by the highest academic degree granted to employed chemists who completed the questionnaire. Salaries 1996 analyzes chemists employment rates and other data. Staff writers at ACS excerpt both reports for periodical publications like Chemical and Engineering News, Today s Chemist at Work, and even the British journal Chemistry and Industry. Chemical libraries offer all these periodicals to readers. The survey typically harvests more information than the reports can hold, so the ACS Ofiice of Career Services makes the overflow available to inquirers. 

Several histories of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division have been compiled over the last century, including the one written in 1951 by Division Chairman William A. Pardee, which was published in Vol. 43, No. 2 of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (1951). Additional information was found in A History of the American Chemical Society Seventy-Five Eventful Years, by Charles Albert Browne (Historian of the American Chemical Society) and Mary Elvira Weeks, published by the Society in 1952. An update was included in A Century of Chemistry The Role of Chemists and the American Chemical Society, edited by Kenneth M. Reese and H. Skolnik, and published by the Society in 1976. I EC historian David E. Gushee published a Division... 

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