Under this program, ACS grants Landmark status to seminal achievements in the history of the chemical sciences and provides a record of their contributions to chemistry and society in the U.S.

THE history of chemistry, like that of Ko-Ko, A “may rank with most romances”, and lends itself perhaps too easily to the picturesque rather than to the accurate style of narration.

This decade marked accelerated acceptance of pollution prevention and the establishment of green chemistry as a legitimate scientific field. The Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 marked a regulatory ...

The discovery of quinine and artemisinin, two natural medicines, fundamentally changed human health, altered the world order, ...