ACS Philadelphia Section
The current Chair of the Philadelphia Section of the ACS
Who is Joseph Martino?
The nation's first hospital, established in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin.
What is Pennsylvania Hospital?
The founder of Philadelphia.
Who is William Penn?
The third member of the Tri-College Consortium, along with Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr.
What is Haverford College?
A silvery-white metal that is soft enough to be cut with a knife.
What is potassium?
This UPenn professor was one of 3 joint awardees of the 200 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery & development of conductive polymers.
Who is Alan MacDiarmid?
The meeting site of the first Congress of the United States.
What is Congress Hall?
Hungarian-American conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra; enjoyed the longest association with any major orchestra.
Who is Eugene Ormandy?
The only Augustinian university in the United States.
What is Villanova University?
An element too reactive to ever be found as a free element on Earth.
What is phosphorous?
A founder of the Philadelphia section and a 3-time ACS President.
Who is Edgar Fahs Smith?
The first theater to install gaslights and air conditioning.
What is the Walnut Street Theater?
This Princess of Monaco was born and raised in Philadelphia.
Who is Grace Kelly?
It translates to 'big hill', not 'high hill', in Welsh.
What is Bryn Mawr?
This rare and highly radioactive metal has no stable isotopes.
What is polonium?
The year the section was founded.
What is 1899?
The first in the world to produce pure malleable nickel.
Who is Joseph Wharton?
He may have starred in "Chicago", but this actor was born in Philadelphia.
Who is Richard Gere?
Helen Magill graduated from this college, and went on to become the first woman in the United States to earn a doctorate.
What is Swarthmore College?
Its name is derived from a Spanish term meaning "little silver".
What is platinum?
The year when the ACS last held its National Meeting in Philadelphia.
What is 2016?
The first World's Fair in the United States, held in Philadelphia, celebrated this event.
What is the Centennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence?
Her handiwork was adopted as a national emblem on June 14, 1777.
Who is Betsy Ross?
The school whose motto is, "Laws without morals are useless".
What is the University of Pennsylvania?
The element that normally exhibits six allotropes and four oxidation states.
What is plutonium?