Andrea Widener

Note for all graphics: Survey of 6,321 U.S. ACS members taken between March and April 2016. Salaries reflect the median salary for full-time employees who say their work specialty is chemistry, with the exception of chemical engineers.

When male faculty and administrators started attacking Shyamala Rajender's character, she relied on one of chemists' great weapons to prove them wrong: her detailed lab notebooks.

Lack of repairs and upgrades to deteriorating facilities built in the 1950s and '60s is hurting the ability of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to fulfill its mission, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Without upgrades, the facilites may not be able to advance measurement science and meet the needs of companies and agencies that rely on NIST's specialized services.