200 Billion
Estimated minimum number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy
50,000,000,000,000,000
Estimated number of submicron particles in 500 grams of acrylic emulsion. The process was one of four scientific achievements designated as National Historic Chemical Landmarks in 2008.
64
Number of National Historic Chemical Landmarks designated by the ACS since 1993.
4,004
ACS Membership in 1908.
154,000 +
ACS Membership as of Dec. 31, 2008.
400
Attendance at 1908 ACS National Meeting in Baltimore.
30,000
Combined attendance at 2008 ACS National Meetings in New Orleans and Philadelphia.
189
Number of employers participating in career fairs at 2008 ACS National Meetings.
1,320
Number of job openings available through employers at those meetings.
138
Number of ACS-chartered high school chemistry clubs.
11,000
Number of chemical abstracts in CAS RegistrySM in 1907.
41 million
Total number of chemical abstracts in CAS Registry in 2008.
33,695
Number of articles published in ACS peer-reviewed journals in 2008
63 million
ACS journal articles downloaded by researchers from www.acs.org.
100
Percentage of ACS' 34 peer-reviewed journals that received news coverage in 2008.
298 million
Verified worldwide audience for those news items.
1
Rank of the 34 ACS peer-reviewed journals in citations and/or Impact Factor in seven ISI chemistry categories.
3 in 4
Odds that a peer-reviewed ACS journal achieved its highest Impact Factor ever in 2008.
150,000 +
Downloads of ACS podcasts in 2008.
42
Introductory online business and management courses offered to ACS members in collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing in 2008.
12,888
Bachelor's degrees earned by students in ACS-approved chemistry programs in 2006-07, an all-time high.
2,462
Doctorates earned by students in ACS-approved chemistry programs during that time, also a record.
24,902
Circumference of the Earth, in miles at the equator.
32,100
Miles driven by ACS volunteers participating in the 2008 ACS Speaker Service Tour.
11,991
Letters sent in 2008 by ACS members to Congress in support of science issues through the Legislative Action Network.
2,400
ACS members who joined the Legislative Action Network in 2008 (total is now more than 17,000).
15
Number of new Government Affairs Committees formed in ACS local sections.
14
Science & the Congress briefings held on Capitol Hill to educate lawmakers and their staff about science issues.
$400 million
Amount of additional federal funding for science programs in the Emergency Supplemental spending bill passed by Congress in September.