• Chemistry has a vital role in the modern science-based industry and in the improved material well-being and health of society. It is being applied increasingly to the growth of our understanding of medicine, biology, materials science, geology, and many other branches of science.
  • Chemistry also has a major role to play in solving our world-wide problems of energy conservation, environmental pollution, nuclear waste disposal, and, through its important contributions to agriculture, even of famine.
  • Many of the future advances will originate from the kind of interdisciplinary research in which chemists trained to solve problems from the molecular to the bulk level must be involved.