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To mark our 75th Anniversary, the
Princeton ACS Local Section, founded on April 25, 1927, dedicated a display cabinet in the Princeton University Chemistry
Department which is the permanent home for our
founding charter, and a source of information about our meetings
and activities for the staff and students at Princeton.
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Our Stories...
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What Happened in 1927...
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the Time
magazine "person of the year"
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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)
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The Great Mississippi Flood
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Chemical Abstracts only listed 25,073
papers and 7872 patents (606,680 papers and 144,498 patents in
2001)
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The "History of Chemisty" and
"Polymeric Materials, Science and Engineering" ACS divisions were
founded
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The ACS Womens Chemisty Committee was
formed ...
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Princeton local section of the
American Chemical Society was formed (see our original
charter)
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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.
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