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What Happened in 1927…

  • Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the Time magazine “person of the year”
  • The Oscars were first awarded (“Wings” was the best movie, Emil Jannings won the best actor for his part in – The Way of All Flesh)
  • The Great Mississippi Flood
  • Chemical Abstracts only listed 25,073 papers and 7872 patents (606,680 papers and 144,498 patents in 2001)
  • The “History of Chemisty” and “Polymeric Materials, Science and Engineering” ACS divisions were founded
  • The ACS Womens Chemisty Committee was formed …
  • Princeton local section of the American Chemical Society was formed
The original charter of the Princeton Section of the American Chemical Society.
The original charter of the Princeton Section of the American Chemical Society. 

 

Fiona Case cuts the ribbon at the dedication of the ACS Princeton Local Section display in the foyer of the Princeton University Frick Chemistry Laboratories.
Fiona Case cuts the ribbon at the dedication of the ACS Princeton Local Section display in the foyer of the Princeton University Frick Chemistry Laboratories.