Run For ACS Presidency
Cotton caused a controversy in his run for President of the American Chemical Society for 1984, wherein he mailed a letter to selected members describing his opponent as “a mediocre industrial chemist”. Cotton ultimately lost the bid to his opponent Dr. Warren D. Niederhauser of Rohm & Haas.
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