Chemistry: Associations

""The American Society of Biological Chemists (ASBC) was founded in 1906 at a meeting organized in New York City by John Jacob Abel of the Johns Hopkins University. The roots of the Society were in the American Physiological Society, which had been formed some 20 years earlier, and, prior to the founding of the ASBC, had provided the principal forum for the dissemination of American research on the chemical aspects of biology. From a modest group of 81 scientists from North America, the Society (now called the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) has grown into one of the most important learned scientific societies with over 12,000 members from around the world."