ACS celebrates its centennial year in 1976. On April 6, 1876, thirty-five chemists met at the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York to found the American Chemical Society. ACS began publishing its flagship journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), in April, 1879. On August 25, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Public Act No. 358, incorporating the society under federal charter.
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