The instruction and training of students at secondary, college, and graduate levels in both the theoretical and practical aspects of chemistry. Well-balanced courses include a substantial amount of laboratory experimentation in addition to lectures and textbook study. Comprehensive one-year courses are offered by most colleges for nonscience majors. The more advanced curricula emphasize quantum-mechanical and thermodynamic considerations, stoichiometry, and spectroscopy. Mechanical models of molecular structure are useful in teaching organic chemistry. A few schools provide courses in industrial chemistry. Student employment in a chemical process plant for part of the semester has proved successful. Tape recordings of symposia, analytical methods and lectures in general chemistry, as well as a broad group of high-level short courses in special subjects are offered by the ACS, which also sponsors radio broadcasts on topics of popular interest in chemistry. The field is well served by two publications the—Journal of Chemical Education and Chemistry. Among the leaders in the development of chemical education may be mentioned Ira Remsen, James B. Conant, Gilbert N. Lewis, Louis Fieser, Roger Adams, and Joel Hildebrand. In recent years, the pervasive influence of computer technology has penetrated almost all of the physical sciences. Thus basic training in its applications to chemistry has become an essential adjunct to chemical education. The publication of data and scientific papers on the World Wide Web and collaboration via the Internet is of increasing importance.See Chemical Literature; Model; Computational Chemistry.
