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Cotton was a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in the [[United States]],and the corresponding academies in [[Russia]], [[China]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], and [[Denmark]], as well as the American Philosophical Society. He had received twenty-nine honorary doctorates.<ref name="texasam"/>
Cotton caused a controversy in his 1985 run for the presidency of the American Chemical Society, wherein he mailed a letter to members describing his opponent as “a mediocre industrial chemist” [Ref. 1].
==Death==
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