Chemists and IUPAC: Taking Responsibility and Taking Action
Since its foundation in 1919, many famous chemists have contributed to the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), fueling the drive to improve standardisation of methods, nomenclature, units and standards, among other things. Without a doubt, progress has been made, despite power struggles, uncompleted projects, and unproductive commissions.
A special session titled, “Chemists and IUPAC: Taking Responsibility and Taking Action,“ to be held during the 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry, will aim at shedding light on the activity of chemists invested with responsibilities in IUPAC, whose actions are often overlooked in national biographical dictionaries. This session falls into the broader project on the centennial of the IUPAC in 2019. Each paper will focus on the responsibilities and actions of individual chemists, alone or combined in a small national or disciplinary group, inside IUPAC. The case study can, however, expand to roles in other international organisations (e.g. IRC, ICSU, SDN or UNESCO). A first survey is provided by the books of R. Fennell (1994) and S. S. Brown (2001). By focusing on individual actions, the aim is to get a better sense of the articulation between the local and the international, and how this articulation was constructed through the work and actions of chemists dispersed across the world.
For more information, please contact Danielle Fauque (danielle.fauque@u-psud.fr) or Brigitte Van Tiggelen (vantiggelen@memosciences.be)
©2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Masthead - Full issue pdf
- Contents
- President’s Column
- On the Path to Rewarding Times
- Features
- Taking IUPAC Literally: Woodward’s Pure and Applied Chemistry Words
- The Periodic Table (continued?): Eka-francium Et Seq.
- Chemistry Organizations in a Changing World
- IUPAC Wire
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- IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118
- IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements—Updated Release
- Gender-based Harassment in the Practice of Science
- ICSU to Merge with ISSC
- Remembering Peter Greaves Taylor Fogg (1929-2016)
- Stamps International
- Woodward’s Birth Centennial
- Project Place
- Environmental Fate and Risks of Nano-enabled Pesticides
- Ecological Risk Assessment Workshop for Central America
- A Critical Review of Reporting and Storage of NMR Data for Spin-Half Nuclei in Small Molecules
- Guides in Metrology
- Bookworm
- Successful Drug Discovery
- Making an imPACt
- Source-based Nomenclature for Single-strand Homopolymers and Copolymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)
- Comprehensive Definition of Oxidation State (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)
- Glossary of Terms Used in Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)
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- Terminology of Bioanalytical Methods
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- Conference Call
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- Chemistry Education
- Green Chemistry
- Solid State Chemistry
- Where 2B & Y
- Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials
- POLYCHAR World Forum on Advanced Materials
- Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry
- Chemists and IUPAC: Taking Responsibility and Taking Action
- Small Satellites for Space Research
- Mark Your Calendar
