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Networking with one's fellow scientists and engineers is extremely important for personal and professional development.  And even in the world of Web social networks, professional societies are the most important means of doing so.  Professional societies sponsor the conferences you will wish to attend or at which you will present papers.  They publish journals which you will read, submit papers to, or serve as a reviewer or editor.  They set professional and educational standards.  They provide job and career services for their members.

This section is for societies and associations headquartered in the United States.  In most cases, their membership is international is scope.

• American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org/)
  • Local Sections - the regional sections of ACS
    • California Los Padres (includes Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties)
  • Technical Divisions - subject specialties within ACS; they organize most programs at national meetings
    • Agricultural & Food Chemistry
    • Agrochemicals
    • Analytical Chemistry
    • Biochemical Technology
    • Biological Chemistry
    • Business Development & Management
    • Carbohydrate Chemistry
    • Catalysis Science and Technology (probationary)
    • Cellulose and Renewable Materials
    • Chemical Education
    • Chemical Health & Safety
    • Chemical Information
    • Chemical Technicians (division dissolved as of Aug. 21, 2009)
    • Chemical Toxicology
    • Chemistry & the Law
    • Colloid & Surface Chemistry
    • Computers in Chemistry
    • Environmental Chemistry
    • Fluorine Chemistry
    • Fuel Chemistry
    • Geochemistry
    • History of Chemistry
    • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
    • Inorganic Chemistry
    • Medicinal Chemistry
    • Nuclear Chemistry & Technology
    • Organic Chemistry
    • Petroleum Chemistry
    • Physical Chemistry
    • Polymer Chemistry
    • Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering
    • Professional Relations
    • Rubber
    • Small Chemical Businesses
  • Secretariats (Interest groups that cross traditional division boundaries)
    • Biotechnology
    • Materials Chemistry
    • Macromolecular
    • Catalysis Secretariat
  • Other Member Groups
    • ACS Network - members-only
    • ACS Student Chapters
    • Senior Chemists Committee
    • Women Chemists Committee (WCC)
    • Younger Chemists Committee (YCC)
  • Other Key Links
    • ACS Careers
    • ACS Meetings
    • ACS Publications
    • Chemical Abstracts Service
• Alpha Chi Sigma professional chemistry fraternity (http://www.alphachisigma.org/)
• American Association of Cereal Chemists (http://www.aaccnet.org/)
• American Association for Clinical Chemistry (http://www.aasc.org/)
• American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (http://www.aapspharmaceutica.com/)
• American Carbon Society (http://www.americancarbonsociety.org/)
• American Crystallographic Assocation (http://aca.hwi.buffalo.edu//)
• American Institute of Chemists (http://www.theaic.org/)
• American Oil Chemists Society (http://www.aocs.org/) -- chemistry of fats and oils
• American Peptide Society (http://www.americanpeptidesociety.org/index.asp?)
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (http://www.asbmb.org/)
  • ASBMB Careers
  • ASBMB Meetings
  • ASBMB Publications
• American Society for Mass Spectrometry (http://www.asms.org/)
• AOAC International (Association of Official Analytical Chemists) (http://www.aoac.org/)
• Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers (http://www.chemconsult.org/)
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Chinese-American Chemical Society (http://www.cacshq.org/)
• Committee for the Advancement of Women in Chemistry (COACh) (http://coach.uoregon.edu/)
• The Electrochemical Society (http://www.electrochem.org/)
• Gamma Sigma Epsilon chemistry honor society (http://www.gammasigmaepsilon.org/)
• Geochemical Society (http://www.geochemsoc.org/)
• Iota Sigma Pi honor society for women in chemistry (http://www.iotasigmapi.info/)
• Iranian Chemists' Association of the American Chemical Society (http://www.ica-acs.org/index.htm)
• National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) (http://www.nobcche.org/)
• New England Association of Chemistry Teachers (http://www.neact.org/)
• Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (http://www.orcs.org/)
• Phi Lambda Upsilon chemistry honorary fraternity (http://philambdaupsilon.org/)
• Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (http://www.sbichem.org/)
• Society of Cosmetic Chemists (http://www.scconline.org/)
• Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry
• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (http://www.setac.org/)

Note: This list includes only societies which currently have a website; generally, if the national language uses the Latin alphabet, the name is given in the local language; if it uses a non-Latin alphabet, the name is given in English translation.

International

• Australasian Association of Clnical Biochemists
• Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry
  
• Chemical Structure Association Trust
• CODATA (International Council on Science - Committee on Data for Science and Technology)
  
• European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences
• European Colloid and Interface Society
  
• European Federation of Catalysis Societies
  
• European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry
• European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids
• European Photochemistry Association
  
• European Society for Applied Physical Chemistry
• Federation of African Societies of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies
  
• Federation of Asian and Oceanic Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
  
• Federation of Asian Chemical Societies
• Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
• International Association of Catalysis Societies
  
• International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists
• International Association of Geochemistry
• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
  
• International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
• International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists
• International Isotope Society
• International Liquid Crystal Society
  
• International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development
• International Society for Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
• International Society of Chemical Ecology
• International Society of Electrochemistry
• International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry
• International Society of Photosynthesis Research
  
• International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)
• International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
  
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
• International X-Ray Absorption Society
• International Zeolite Association
• Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society
  
• Nordic Catalysis Society
  
• North American Catalysis Society
• Pan American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Patent Information Users Group (PIUG)
• Society for Organic Petrology
• Society of Cosmetic Chemists
• World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
  

Argentina

• Asociación Química Argentina (Spanish and English)
• Comité Naciional de Catálisis (Spanish)
• Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (Spanish)

Australia

• Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Catalysis Society of Australia
  
• Royal Australian Chemical Institute

Austria

• Gesellschaft Österreciher Chemiker (German and English)
• Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Molekulare Biowissenschaften und Biotechnologie (German and English)

Belarus

• Belarusian Biochemical Society (Belarusian)

Belgium

• Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (English)
• Belgian Society for Mass Spectrometry (English)
• Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereiniging (Dutch)
• Société Royale de Chimie (French)

Brazil

• Sociedade Brasiliera de Bioquimica e Biologia Molecular (Portuguese and English)
• Sociedade Brasiliera de Catálise (Portugueses)
• Sociedade Brasiliera de Quimica (Portuguese and English)

Canada

• Canadian Society of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology (English and French)
• Chemical Institute of Canada (English and French)
• Canadian Society for Chemistry (English and French)
• Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry (English)
• Ordre des chemistes du Québec (French and English)

Chile

• Sociedad de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular de Chile (Spanish)
• Sociedad Chilena de Química (Spanish)

China

• Catalysis Society of China (Chinese)
• Chinese Chemical Society (Chinese and English)
• Chinese Society for Mass Spectrometry (Chinese)
• Hong Kong Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (English)
• Hong Kong Society of Mass spectrometry (English)

Croatia

• Hrvatsko Drustvo za Biokemiju i Molekularnu Biologju (Croatian snd English)
• Hrvatsko Kemijsko Drustvo (Croatian and English)

Cyprus

• Pancyprian Union of Chemists (Greek and English)

Czech Republic

• Ceská spolecnost pro biochemii a molekulární biologii (Czech)
• Ceská spolecnost chemická (Czech and English)

Denmark

• Biokemish Forening (Danish and English)
• Kemisk Forening (English)

Estonia

• Eesti Biokeemia Selts (Estonian and English)
• Eesti Keemia Selts (Estonian and English)

Finland

• Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica Fenniae (Finnish and English)
• Suomen Katalyysiseura (Finnish and English)
• Suomen Kemian Seura (Finnish, English and Swedish)

France

• Société Chimique de France (French)
• Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire (French)
• Société Française de Spectrométrie de Masse (French)

Germany

• Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (German and English)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie (German)
• Deutsche Vereinte Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin (German and English)
• Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German and English)
• Gesellschaft für Biochimie und Molekularbiologie (German and English)

Greece

• Association of Greek Chemists (Greek)
• Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Greek and English)

Hungary

• Magyar Biokémiai Egyesulet (Hungarian)
• Magyar Kemikusok Egyesulete (Hungarian)

India

• Indian Chemical Society (English)
• Indian Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (English)
• Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry (English)

Iran

• Iranian Chemical Society (Persian; Journal page in English)

Ireland

• Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (English)
• Irish Mass Spectrometry Society (English)

Israel

• Israel Chemical Society (English and Hebrew)
• Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (English)

Italy

• Società Chimica Italiana (Italian)
• Società Italiana di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare (Italian and English)

Japan

• Catalysis Society of Japan (Japanese)
• Chemical Society of Japan (Japanese and English)
• Electrochemical Society of Japan (Japanese and English)
• Japan Oil Chemists Society (Japanese and English)
• Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (Japanese and English)
• Japanese Biochemical Society (Japanese and English)
• Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (Japanese and English)
• Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Japanese and English)

Jordan

• Jordanian Chemical Society (Arabic)

Korea (Republic of, =South Korea)

• Korean Chemical Society (Korean and English)
• Korean Oil Chemists Society (Korean)
• Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Korean and English)

Lithuania

• Lietuvos Biochemiku Draugija (Lithuanian and English)

Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of

• Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia (English)

Mexico

• Academia de Catálisis (Spanish)
• Sociedad Mexicana de Bioquímica (Spanish and English)
• Sociedad Química de México (Spanish and English)

Montenegro

• Hemijsko Drustvo Crne Gore (Montenegrin and English)

Morocco

• Societe Marocaine de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire (French, English and Arabic)

Netherlands

• Koninklijke Nederlandsche Chemische Vereeniging (Dutch)
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Biochemie en Moleculaire Biologie (Dutch)
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Massaspectrometrie (Dutch and English)

New Zealand

• New Zealand Institute of Chemistry
  

Nigeria

• Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (English)

Norway

• Norsk Biokjemisk Selskap (Norwegian and English)
• Norsk Kjemisk Selskap (Norwegian and English)
• Norsk Selskap for Massespektrometri (Norwegian)

Pakistan

• Pakistan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (English)

Peru

• Sociedad Química del Perú (Spanish)

Philippines

• Philippine Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (English)

Poland

• Polskie Towarzystwo Biochemiczne (Polish and English)
• Polski Towarzystwo Chemiczne (Polish and English)
• Polski Towarzystwo Spektrometrii Mas (Polish and English)

Portugal

• Sociedade Portuguesa de Bioquímica (English and Portuguese)
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Quimica (Portuguese)

Romania

• Societatea Romana de Biochimie si Biologie Moleculara (Romanian and English)

Serbia

• Serbian Chemical Society (English and Serbian)
• Yugoslav Biochemical Society (English)

Slovak Republic

• Slovenská Chemická Spolocnost (Slovak)
• Slovenská spolocnost' pre biochémiu e molekulárnu biológiu (Slovak and English)

Slovenia

• Slovensko Biokemijsko Drustvo (Slovenian and English)
• Slovensko Kemijsko Drustvo (Slovenian and English)

South Africa

• Catalysis Society of South Africa (English)
• Electrochemical Society of South Africa (English)
• South African Association for Mass Spectrometry (English)
• South African Chemical Institute (English)
• South African Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (English)

Spain

• Asociación Nacional de Químicos de España (Spanish)
• Real Sociedad Española de Química (Spanish)
• Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular (Spanish)
• Sociedad Española de Catálisis (Spanish and English)
• Sociedad Española de Espectrometria de Masas (Spanish)
• Sociedad Española de Química Analytica (Spanish)
• Societat Catalana de Química (Catalan)

Sweden

• Svensk Föreningen för Biokemi och Molekylärbiologi (English)
• Svenska Katalyssälllskapet (Swedish and English)
• Svenska Kemistsamfundet (Swedish and English)
• Swedish Mass Spectrometry Society (English)

Switzerland

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Biochemie (German, French and English)
• Swiss Chemical Society (English, French and German)
• Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry (English)
• Swiss Society for Crystallography (German, French and English)

Taiwan

• Chemical Society located in Taipei (Chinese, with some English)

Turkey

• Turkish Biochemical Society (Turkish and English)
• Turkiya Kimya Dernegi (Turkish and English)

United Kingdom

• The Biochemical Society
• British Crystallographic Association
  
• British Mass Spectrometry Society
• British Society for Proteome Research
  
• British Zeolite Association
  
• Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Interest Groups A-Z
  • RSC Publishing
  • Chemsoc - chemistry for general interest
• Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• Society of Cosmetic Scientists
  

Uruguay

• Seccional de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de la Sociedad Uruguayana de Biociencias (Spanish)
• Asociación de Química y Farmacia del Uruguay (Spanish)