Becoming a chemical centenarian isn’t difficult. One just needs to take it a day at a time. At least 75 world famous chemists have reached the century rank and Gerry is joining an elite group that continued the productivity at age 100 that they demonstrated throughout their lives. At 100, Michel Eugene Chevreul, an inventor of margarine, began quantitative measurements of the physiological effect of aging with himself as the prime subject. Adam Bielanski, distinguished Polish professor, was busy mounting his best general chemistry lectures on YouTube. E. Emmet Reid, as a Johns Hopkins faculty emeritus, published his autobiography rich with information about the development of American chemistry and entitled “My First Hundred Years: An Interim Report.” Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD, wrote a proposal to Steve Jobs requesting that the Apple billionaire provide a grant for a study of the utility of LSD in psychotherapy. George Rosenkranz, co-creator of the oral contraceptive and also Grand Life Master of duplicate bridge, accumulated more than 13,000 master points and published a monograph on playing bridge. Arnold Beckman, creative instrumentation chemist and one of America’s major philanthropists, re-focused his foundation’s giving into science education and support for early career scholars. Those of us who know Gerry Meyer know that for Gerry, as it was for his colleagues in the CCC, major achievements lie ahead.

Gerry Meyer joins an elite group, the Centennial Chemists Club (CCC): Report on its achievements

2019 Fall National Meeting

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