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educate students to be experts in certain areas. Industries will be able to obtain spectroscopists from some schools, radiochemists from other schools, and so forth. The analytical chemist must have sufficent education in all fields of chemistry (organic, inorganic, bio-, physical and engineering) in order to apply modern chemistry and instrumentation to problems so that his measurements are informative. In my opinion the undergraduate chemist should have a good course in the freshman or sophomore year emphasizing quantitative measurements and covering basic principles of solution chemistry, separations, electrochemistry, and spectroscopy. In the senior year there should be a specialized course related to problem solving involving spectroscopic-structure techniques and separation-identification-measuring methods which takes advantage of the particular professor's field of research. This course should be divided when possible between the various professors in analytical chemistry so that experience could be obtained from each. I feel this would be stimulating to the student and could lead to a career in analytical chemistry directly or through the graduate school. (J!) Reilley, C. N., A N A L . C H E M . 38, 35 A
(February 1966). (g) Reinmuth, W. H., Ibid., 48 A. Comments
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