ABSTRACT
The great institutional settings within which chemists work are, of course, industry, academia, and government. The Ph.D. researchers are the most mobile, since more of them have worked in other locales. However, more have also held only one job, for they are mainly recent graduates; some will remain in industry but many will return to the universities and colleges as faculty members. In the academic world, chemists, like other faculty members, have a choice of climbing the professorial ladder, finally achieving full professorships and sometimes chairmanships of their departments, or moving into administration. The small total and the variation in number of responses from the different groups suggest circumspection. However, the answers generally show agreement on worthy, somewhat puritanical, self-attributes and on the necessity for working with others, along with an emphasis upon research productivity, especially in highly visible forms.
