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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Modern analytical chemistry, viewed as the characterization and control of materials, and managed by broadly trained men and women, could be a unifying force to counter act the splintering and specializa tion t h a t burden science today. As another unifying force, M a terials Science comes immediately to mind. A perceptive analysis of this newly created field says in part (β) : To one who moves around Washington today in the quest for funds to support University research, or indeed to those who visit the metallurgy and ceramics departments of our foremost universities and institutes of technology, the term 'materials science' is an O.K. word. Of course, not even government fi nancing can make the Fermi level significant for polymers or the mo lecular weight distribution impor t a n t for alloys. B u t any a t t e m p t at unification is welcome, and es pecially an a t t e m p t t h a t rests es sentially upon characterization of materials. In accord with the times, we may someday be calling analytical chem istry "materials characterization and control/' but I am too fond of the present name, and of adjectives where they belong, to suggest t h a t now. Conclusion
Let me be really subjective in closing. As a reserve officer, I lived through the mechanization of the field artillery. With this painful but necessary process, the current revolution in analytical chemistry has much in common, emotionally and factually, for mechanization re sembles instrumentation or automa tion. I believe it is foolish to resist such revolutions and sensible to turn them to good account. If modern analytical chemistry suffers at all, it suffers because the charac terization and control of materials is too big an assignment for a single discipline. If this is so, we m a y surely say of analytical chemistry what the National Archives Build-
