Expert Scientists Advise Tomorrow's Chemists, Forecast Future Knowledge Needs

Kirk Monroe, 202/872-4445
Las Vegas Convention Center, N118
702/732-5868 (phone); 702/892-3262(fax)
Fri., 8/12: Phone: 702/774-0025
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EXPERT SCIENTISTS ADVISE TOMORROW'S CHEMISTS FORECAST FUTURE KNOWLEDGE NEEDS

Emerging chemistry challenges -- from new, incurable diseases to global climate change -- may have few solutions today. But they're just what tomorrow's chemists will face in the year 2020. What will the young chemists of today need to learn to be prepared for the chemistry challenges of tomorrow? That's the subject of a special Presidential symposium to be held Sept. 8 at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, in Las Vegas. Society President Paul Anderson, Ph.D. -- a leading DuPont/Merck scientist noted for his own work in developing protease inhibitors and combination AIDS pharmaceutical therapies -- will lead a distinguished panel of scientists from industry, academe and national laboratories in a lively discussion of the knowledge base, work environments, technological advances and other factors that today's chemists will need to succeed in the next century.

WHO:

Dr. Paul Anderson - Senior Vice President, Chemical & Physical Science, The DuPont/Merck Pharmaceutical Co.; and President, American Chemical Society

Dr. Ronald Breslow - S.L. Mitchill Professor of Chemistry and University Professor, Columbia University; and Immediate Past President, American Chemical Society

Dr. Janet Osteryoung - Division Director, Chemistry Division, National Science Foundation; and Professor of Chemistry, North Carolina State University

Dr. Lura Powell - Director of Advanced Technology Programs, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dr. Al Sattelberger - Director, Science and Technology Base Programs, Los Alamos National Laboratory

WHAT:

Panel discussion of how the field of chemistry will change by 2020

WHEN:
Monday, Sept. 8, 1997
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Las Vegas Hilton Hotel
3000 Paradise Road
Pavilion 1, Level One

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