Backgrounds of Graduate School Chemistry Faculties Possible changes or realignments in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum are being discussed a t all levels from the ACS Committee an Professional Training down to individual departmental staffs. Many factors are involved in determining the course of these discussions. One is almost sure to he the distribution of academic chemists according t o field of training, since discussions of the "importance" of a. field unfortunately sometimes involve loyalties bordering on emotional reaction. It may help to promote a balsnce in such discussions if some figures are known. To get a statistical picture of this problem, we analyzed the data in the "Directory of Graduate Research" (1959), prepared by the Committee on Professional Training of the ACS. The data. are from 122 sohools which offer the Ph. D. degee in chemistry. These data do not include the separate departments of biochemistry or chemical engineering, hut some do contain hiochemistry and chemical engineering as s. part of the chemistry department. The following table collates information on the fields listed by filcolty members of the 122 institutions. The classification "other" includes those listed as biochemistry and chemical engineering and those making no designation.
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Total number on 122 chemistry faculties Organic
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Number in Physical
Inorganic
Analytical
Others
In addition, of the 122 schools listed, 27 had no inorganic chemist listed as such on the entire staff (22.9% of the school^) and 29 schools had not one single analytical chemist listed as such (23.8% of the sohwls).
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