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VII. Career Opportunities and Education in Chemistry
Pages 223-228

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... CHEMISTRY: AN ACTIVITY OF CREATIVE INDIVIDUALISTS Today's public image of science is still heavily influenced by the reverberating impact of the World War I! Manhattan Project that brought us the atomic bomb and the Apollo Project of the 1960s that let us set foot on the Moon.
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From page 224...
... Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation. Detailed Statistical Tables, NSF Report No.
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From page 225...
... Because of the basic character of chemistry and its centrality among the sciences, introductory chemistry classes are not dominated by majors in chemistry but, rather, by students thinking of careers in fields adjacent to chemistry. A knowledge of the atomic makeup of the world around us is a necessity in most advanced courses to be taken by the student entering the health and biological sciences, physics, engineenng, geology, oceanography, and even astronomy.
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... At the same time, the typical chemistry graduate student will be a member of a group working with the same research director on related problems based on similar experimental and theoretical techniques. This group might include several other graduate students and postdoctoral students.
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... The rationale for this element has several components: teaching is a valuable educational experience for the graduate; it helps him or her evaluate an academic career as a career goal, it provides financial support, and it aids chemistry departments in meeting their large role in undergraduate education for related fields. From the point of view of financial support, teaching can thus provide approximately 20 percent of the support usually received by a chemistry graduate student.
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... At the major research universities, essentially ad of the chemistry graduate students receive continuous stipend and tuition support throughout their graduate study. For the national average over the period 1974 to 1980, the best available data indicate that between two-thirds and three-fourths of U.S.
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