THE SIXTH CENSUS' OF GRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS IN CHEMISTRY, 1929

CLARENCE J. WEST AND CALLIE HULL, RESEARCH INPORBlAT1ON SERVICE, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. WASHINGTON. D. C.

The Sixth Census of Graduate Research Students in Chemistry, 1929, continues the annual compilation which was first issued in 1924.' It is interesting to note the steady growth in the number of students in Ameri- can universities who are undertaking research in the various fields of chemistry: 1700 in 1924, 1763 in 1925, 1882 in 1926, 1934 in 1927,2071 in 1928, and 2498 in 1929. The present compilation includes returns from one hundred and thirty-four universities, of which twenty-one have re- ported members of the faculty only engaged in chemical research.

In compiling the data for the past academic year, a questionnaire was sent to ;he head of the department of chemistry, with the request that he indicate other departments of his university in which chemical research was being done. To these also questionnaires were sent. This probably accounts for the increase in the number of research workers reported for

TABLE II

Number of Graduate Students Engaged in Research in Various Fields of Chemistry 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1R24

Ssbjccr Told M D P Told Told Told Toid To ld

General and Physical 448 194 254 227 406 430 343 332 240 Colloid 82 33 49 41 86 79 58 77 69 Catalysis 34 9 25 19 27 28 31 33 51 Subatomic and Radio 20 10 10 15 18 21 21 27 20 Electro-Inorganic 24 9 15 11 25 21 32 42 38 Electro-Organic 15 5 10 12 13 11 13 14 18 Photochemistry and Pho-

tography 41 15 26 21 22 25 25 19 24 Inorganic 116 60 56 69 124 116 109 86 101 Analytical 95 54 41 82 96 75 54 44 71 Metallurgical 36 25 11 26 22 21 34 28 38 Organic 719 314 405 250 fi68 570 475 430 422 Physiological 222 113 109 146 146 134 207 196 172 Pharmacological 14 8 6 31 11 7 14 20 30 Pharmaceutical 27 12 15 20 16 14 21 39 20 Sanitary 27 16 11 17 30 25 11 12 9 Nutrition 80 33 47 44 52 58 51 76 48 Food 31 11 20 18 52 27 37 49 35 Aericultwnl 91 42 49 94 111 89 72 55 91 - Industrial and Engineer-

ina 91 54 37 45 156 188 274 184 203 - Chemical Engineering 285 183 102 103 . . . . . . . . . .

TOTALS 2498 1200 1298 1291 2071 1934 1882 1763 1700

1 Zanetti, I d . Eng. Chem., 16, 402 (1924). Norris, Ibid., 17, 755 (1925). West znd Iiull. THIS JOURNAL, 4. 909 (JuIY, 1927); 5,882 (Ju~Y, 1928); 6, 1338 (July-Aug.,

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physiological chemistry and for chemical engineering. I t should be noted that this year the separate classification, chemical engineering, has been used for the first time. This was done because of the feeling on the part of certain departments of chemical engineering that their work should not be included under the heading of industrial chemistry. In view of the fact that the data for many universities is a composite of several returns, the name of the head of the department of chemistry, which has appeared in previous compilations, has been omitted from Table I (see insert).

It should be mentioned that in Table 11, while a column is given to the faculty, the numbers given there are not included in the totals, as those numbers refer only to the graduate students, and are comparable with the totals for previous years.

An effort has again been made to eliminate the counting of one person more than once. However, i t is not always possible to detect such errors of listing, and the compilation is offered with the hope that, in the future, the heads of the various departments will see that this interpretation is strictly followed.