An Ode to IUPAC
-
Jeremy G. Frey
Current world conditions
Nicely demonstrate the need
Start to nurture and grow the seed
Lively response to take the lead
Supporting chemical collaborations
Enabled by the digital computer age
setting, refining, redefining standards
help in solving the global hazards -
energy, water, health and feed,
we must not be bystanders
Setting chemists front of stage
All invested in AI, not just from the tin -
basic, fair, unbiased, explainable techniques begin
decidedly changing our discipline
a new variety for our digital orchard
AI - theory, computation and experiments allied
to train the next generation,
people and facilities, from sciences,
arts and humanities—all crucial
to inform the digital native of their chemistry
Without continued effort ideas wither
dramatic short-term gains from individual drums
others balanced by the longer-term outcomes
collaboration, academic, industrial hums
the whole community come hither
Chemistry, creative science,
The future is bright
Digital is the novel way -
to decide what to make and measure
Doing all this together
Success? Yes!—and IUPAC has its part to play
Jeremy Frey is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton, and is involved in IUPAC activities through Division I, Commission I.1 and CPCDS and several projects for the Green and Gold Books.
This poem represents Jeremy’s call to action to modernise the Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). It was presented at Poetic Science on 11 March 2021; see more details at https://jhg.art/events/poetic-science/ The Poetry Night @JHG is also available at: https://youtu.be/AcysRMF0bWw
Photo by Luke Richardson (https://unsplash.com/@lukealrich)
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