Dr. Allison A. Campbell, a chemist and director of a large research directorate at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been elected the 2017 president of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. She will be president-elect in 2016.
Campbell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and a doctorate in chemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She was an invited researcher at the Max-Planck Society in Dresden, Germany, in 1994.
With more than 158,000 members, the American Chemical Society (ACS) is the world’s largest scientific society and one of the world’s leading sources of authoritative scientific information. A nonprofit organization, chartered by Congress, ACS is at the forefront of the evolving worldwide chemistry enterprise and the premier professional home for chemists, chemical engineers and related professions around the globe.
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