ABSTRACT
Chemists are employed in industries as varied as cosmetics and space vehicles, pharmaceuticals and farm products, in aluminum, paper, textiles, soap, oil, glass, paint, weapons, aluminum, rubber, road building, and countless others. One is the locale within which they work, principally whether in a university or college or elsewhere. Academics use their background in chemistry to participate to about the same slight extent as do most other chemists. The social backgrounds of non-academic researchers are much like those of men found on the campuses. The great majority are between twenty-six and forty-five years of age. The chemical engineers are principally engaged in research or administration and consider themselves chemists as well as engineers. The occupational profile that emerges from the questionnaire data is much like that of the Ph.D.'s, although among the engineers only 13 per cent possess doctoral degrees and only another 23 per cent Master's degrees.
