Speaking the language of chemistry worldwide

We all speak the language of chemistry. That’s what we have in common, regardless of our country of origin, our country of residence, or the other languages we speak. That range of origins, countries, and languages is welcome within the American Chemical Society—and in fact makes our chemistry all the better.You can speak chemistry in Spanish with me or Amy Prieto, who lives in the US; Fernanda Duarte, who lives in the UK; Alán Aspuru-Guzik, who lives in Canada; Erick Carreira, who lives in Switzerland; or so many of our ACS colleagues who live all over the world. For example, you can check out my webinar in Spanish from Feb. 18, in which I speak on “Domain Science and Data Science: Better Together to Advance Molecular and Material Science.” Cohosted by ACS and the Chemical Society of Mexico (SQM), it is available at the ACS Webinars online library. The publications division and ACS’s international office in India run nearly biweekly ACS Science Talks online; several of which have been delivered in Spanish. I’m scheduled to speak on my group’s work on sustainable nanoparticles as part of that series on Oct. 6. On both these platforms, you can also find many recorded lectures available on-demand from most of the chemists I mentioned above, and many more. Whether or not we speak the romance language of Portugués, you and I will have the opportunity to speak the language of chemistry at the Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry in December. It should not