Scientists Inducted Into Chemistry "Hall of Fame"

First time accepted submitter ACXNew writes "The scientists behind three inventions that touch the lives of millions of people around the world will be inducted into a coveted scientific 'Hall of Fame' as the latest Heroes of Chemistry named by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. Established in 1996, the ACS Heroes of Chemistry program recognizes scientists whose work in various fields of chemistry and chemical engineering has led to the successful innovation and development of commercial products that benefit humankind."

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You'd think the summary could at least list...

[BitterOak]

You'd think the summary could at least list the 3 inventions that the scientists are being honored for: The first is an oral Hepatitis C drug, the second is a leukemia drug, and the third is for developing atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition technology, which can be used, among other things, for coating glass with certain chemicals to help change solar heating properties in windows, etc.

Re:You'd think the summary could at least list...

[jo_ham]

It's interesting that only one of these is really "chemical." Old school chemistry is dead.

Everything is a chemical.

Anyone who makes anything, or studies something that is made of "stuff" is really just an applied chemist.

(and yes, yes, us chemists are just applied physicists...) ;)

Laugh

[koan]

Is one of them the inventor of LSD?

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[vlm]

Is one of them the inventor of LSD?

Nominations are only accepted by corporations. Sounds weird but true. The ACS then guilt trips the nominating corp into paying all expenses for the "winner" to visit the conference. Its a weird intersection of the old "whos who" scam and "best employer award" scam and a way for a (very good) manager to get budget approved for conferences "Well see here boss, one of my guys just won an award, what do you mean we don't have budget for travel expenses, maybe since we're famous award winners now we could get the money from PRs budget?" Note these chemists (AFAIK) are cool and they do cool work and are totally above board, its just the "award" thats semi-shady.

How that intersects with your concern is I have absolutely no idea in 2012 what corporation makes money off acid who has a acid related chemist on staff. A psych hospital might make money off it, but who's on staff that directly contributes to the chemistry? Maybe a CSI forensic chemist with a new detection scheme?

This is why you will only see "Big Pharma" nominees, and not see, for example, a high school chemistry teacher or educator in general.

Number one on the list?

[theshowmecanuck]

Kieth Richards!

Timing

[93 Escort Wagon]

These guys certainly did interesting research... but it's doubtful many people actually care who they are. Plus - "Heroes of Chemistry", really? Who came up with THAT?

This whole thing smacks of a PR move by someone (or a group of "someone"s) who's irked at all the physics and NASA press of the last several years. "These guys are getting all the headlines! We need to find a way to get chemistry a piece of that pie!" But the problem is, no matter how important chemistry is - it's pretty boring stuff to non-chemists. This group has even admitted as much by picking winners doing research that most people wouldn't identify as chemistry at all.

how about Barry Bonds?

[Anonymous Coward]

He could get elected to both the Chemistry and Baseball HoF's.

Inducted

[rossdee]

I thought Induction was an electromagnetism thing (ie physics) rather than a chemistry thing