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5 Likely Future Position: Increasing Challenges to U.S. Leadership in Chemistry
5 Likely Future Position: Increasing Challenges to U.S. Leadership in Chemistry
Pages 113-126
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science policy or levels of financial support, chemistry in the United States will remain stronger than in any other single country for at least the next five years. However, there will be increasing competition, not only from our traditional competitors (Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom)
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chemistry research budgets and flat numbers of students, the panel projects that other nations and regions will soon be catching up with the United States. Projections for chemistry as a whole and for various areas and subareas of chemistry are presented below.
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U.S. chemistry departments continue to attract and retain outstanding international graduate students and postdoctoral research associates because of the outstanding quality of U.S.
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5-1 increasing competition overall for attracting foreign graduate students and for retaining them in the U.S. workforce.
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Many U.S. chemical companies have eliminated or significantly reduced in size their corporate or central research laboratories in order to more closely align research and development with shorter-term business opportunities.
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Key capabilities for chemistry research include advanced light sources, scanning probe instruments, supercomputers, very high field nuclear magnetic resonance spec
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The United States is particularly strong in emerging areas of chemical science at the interface with other disciplines. In these areas, which include nanochemistry, biological chemistry, and materials chemistry, the United States will maintain a leadership position despite growing competition, but the lead is likely to eventually erode.
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For example, funding cuts at DOE in the basic chemistry underpinning nuclear medicine research may destabilize U.S. leadership in the area of in vivo molecular imaging.
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position in bioinorganic chemistry will be maintained because of strong support from NIH and because of strong interest in this hot area of inorganic chemistry. The United States is a leader in transition metal organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, but increasing investment in this area from the European Union will increase competition.
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economy and our energy needs, additional investments will be required to attract students and faculty to meet these needs. The United States Will Remain Among the Leaders in Organic Chemistry The strong leadership of the United States in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery will likely continue due to strong support from NIH.
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The United States Will Remain Among the Leaders in Physical Chemistry The United States is currently among the leaders in experimental physical chemistry but is experiencing increasing competition from Western Europe and Japan. Frontier research in experimental physical chemistry that leads to the discovery of underlying principles is most often associated with the conception and development of novel instrumentation.
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The growth in applications-oriented research and molecularly oriented bio- and materialsrelated activities has been accompanied by a parallel decrease in funding for basic research in some fundamental core areas of physical chemistry and organic chemistry. Core research areas, which underlie advances in emerging areas of science, are likely to continue to struggle for research support.
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In addition, the installation and operation of a diverse range of facilities to support leading-edge research in chemistry will be equally stretched.
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