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Local chemist is president of world’s largest scientific society

Thomas J. Barton, Ph.D., a distinguished professor emeritus of chemistry at Iowa State University and former director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National  Laboratory, will lead the American Chemical Society (ACS) as president in 2014.



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