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12ICHC Group picture, August 1 2019. By Robinn Thimister
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New composition of the board
Chair : Dr. Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Clair-elected : Professor Annette Lykknes
Vice-chair : Associate Professor Isabel Malaquias
Secretary: Assistant Professor Ignacio Suay-Matallana
Communication officer : Yoanna Alexiou
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Minutes of the business meeting of the EuChemS Working Party of History of Chemistry, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Thursday, August 1st 2019
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12th International Conference on History of Chemistry, Maastricht 2019
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Between July 29 and August 2, 120 historians of chemistry met in Maastricht on the occasion of the 12th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (12ICHC). The meeting was organized by the EuChemS Working Party on the History of Chemistry and hosted by the Maastricht University under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), the Maastricht University, and with the support of the Science History Institute, the Solvay company, the Polymer Research Platform (DPI), the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC), the Holland Chemistry Society, the ACSeBooks and the Linda Hall Library. The local organizing committee was chaired by Ernst Homburg; Christoph Meinel and Ignacio Suay-Matallana served as chairs of the programme committee.
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EuchemS Historical Landmark Award, Sweden 2019
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During a meeting held on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April 2019, on the Swedish island of Resarö, Vaxholm Municipality in the Stockholm archipelago, the first EuChemS Historical Landmarks Award plaque was unveiled at the Ytterby mine, famous for being linked to the discovery site of some 8 rare earths elements.
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The symposium «Celebrating D.I. Mendeleev’s Periodic System. A Historical Perspective /«Юбилей Периодической системы Д.И.Менделеева. Исторический аспект», was organized as a satellite meeting in the frame of the XXI Mendeleev Congress at the Saint Petersburg State University (Russia), on 10-13 September 2019.
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Van Spronsen Guide digitized and OCR version
A guide to all museums, which Jan W. van Spronsen visited personally, appeared in English in 1981 under the auspices of the Working Party on the History of Chemistry with the title A Guide of European Museums and Expositions on Chemistry and History of Chemistry. It was followed by a second in 1996 and third updated edition, in 1998, that included pharmacy, also published by the Federation of the European Chemical Societies. It is this last edition that we provide here. Now 20 years old, and containing outdated information, this guide has, however,not been replaced and is very hard to find.
Van Spronsen, A Guide of European Museums and Expositions on Chemistry and History of Chemistry, the Federation of the European Chemical Societies, 1968.
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Isabel Malaquias and Peter J. T. Morris (ed.), Perspectives on Chemical Biography in the 21st Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, February 2019
"The present publication contains twenty-four texts previously presented at the 10th International Conference on the History of Chemistry devoted to the theme Chemical Biography in the 21st Century."
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WPHC Board wishes you a Happy New Year
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