Madeleine Jacobs

Madeleine Jacobs (born November 11, 1946) is an American executive businesswoman. Shewas the CEO of the American Chemical Society (ACS) from 2004 to 2014, and the president and CEO of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents from 2015 to 2016.

Early life and education Jacobs was born in Washington, D.C., to Joseph and Helen Reines, respectively a concert bassoonist and a secretary. Jacobs earned her B.S. in chemistry from George Washington University in 1968 with a full scholarship. After bachelor's degree, she completed course works for a master's degree in organic chemistry at University of Maryland College Park in 1969. In 1972, she left C&EN to work for National Institutes of Health and the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards & Technology), where she worked for two years.

Jacobs returned to C&EN as a managing editor in 1993. After being promoted to editor-in-chief in 1995, she became the first female CEO of the ACS in 2004, after the previous CEO John K. Crum retired in late 2003. She was also the first person to hold that position without having a PhD.

Advocacy Under the slogan of "The Smithsonian is for everyone," which was coined during her time at Smithsonian, Jacobs developed a variety of outreach programs that earned her the Smithsonian's Secretary's Gold Medal for Exceptional Service.

When Jacobs first joined C&EN in 1969, she was the only woman reporter among magazine's staffs. Jacobs also initiated the annual release of the "scorecard," where C&EN tracks how the academia and the industry are doing in hiring women chemists. 2004: American Crystallographic Association Public Service Award 2006–2007: Sylvia M. Stoesser Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Illinois