Alpha Chi Sigma Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Alpha Chi Sigma is a professional fraternity specializing in the field of chemistry. It has both collegiate and professional chapters throughout the United States consisting of both men and women and numbering over 56,000 members. The fraternity aims to bring together students and professionals pursuing a wide variety of chemistry-related careers.
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The Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity was organized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in late 1902, by a group of undergraduates who were fellow students in chemistry at that time. Later documents set the date of founding as December 11, 1902. The original founders were:
The Three Objects of Alpha Chi Sigma:
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Famous Members
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
"for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases."
"for [his] discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."
"for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances."
"for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone."
"for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science."
"for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes."
"for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules."
"for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding."
"for [his] development of the use of boron-containing compounds into important reagents in organic synthesis."
"for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix."
"for developing new ways to synthesize complex molecules ordinarily found in nature"
""for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
"for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."
"for [his] discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events."
"for [his] interpretation of the genetic code and its functions in protein synthesis."
"for [his] discoveries of Important Principles for Drug Treatment."
"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
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