The symposium, titled "Chemistry and the National Agenda: The Contribution of Research to the Nation," is part of the national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, Aug. 23-27. All panelists will be available to talk one-on-one with reporters following the session.
When
Sunday, August 23, 8:30 a.m.-noon
Where
Westin Hotel
10 Huntington Ave.
Staffordshire Room, 3rd Floor
Who
Dr. George A. Olah
Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
University of Southern California
Dr.Dudley R. Herschbach
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University
Dr. Rudolph A. Marcus
Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics
California Institute of Technology
Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland
Department of Chemistry
University of California-Irvine
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California-Berkeley
Dr. William N. Lipscomb
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University
Dr. Rita R. Colwell
Director, National Science Foundation
For further information contact:
Nancy Blount at (202) 872-4451. From August 20-27, Press Room,
Convention Center, Room 308. Phone: (617) 351-6808; FAX: (617) 351-6820
A nonprofit organization with a membership of more than 155,000 chemists and chemical engineers as its members, the American Chemical Society publishes scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences, and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.