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2007: Neighbours and Territories: The Evolving Identity of Chemistry

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Chapters from the proceedings: (For remaining chapters, please contact vice chair Annette Lykknes)

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Report from the conference

2006: History of the Food Chain

Aim: to bring together historically interested chemists working in the fields of food, agricultural and analytical, bio and environmental chemistry and historians of chemistry.

2005: Creating Networks in Chemistry

The book “Creating Networks in Chemistry: The Founding and Early History of Chemical Societies in Europe”, edited by Anita Kildebaek Nielsen and Sona Štrbánová (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008), which originated from the workshop on chemical societies in connection with the 5th International Conference for the History of Chemistry in Estoril & Lisbon in 2005, has been published.

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2005: 5th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (5ICHC), Lisbon, Portugal

To recieve the proceedings for the 5ICHC, please contact Isabel Malaquais.

Email Dr. Isabel Malaquias

2003: 4th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (4ICHC), Budapest, Hungary

Theme “Communication in Chemistry in Europe, across borders and across generations – 34 papers were presented to about 80 participants.

Annual reports of member societies to the Working Party

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Annual reports of the Working Party to EuChemS

EuchemS Historical Landmark Award, Sweden 2019

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.

Report on Ytterby by Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Newsletters

Other reports and Publications

100 Distinguished European Chemists

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Teaching History of Chemistry in Europe

By José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez, University of Valencia, Spain – November 2007

By Ignacio Suay-Matallana, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal – 2015 survey (updated March 2016)

Suay-Matallana, I; Bertomeu-Sánchez, J.R., (2016), Mapping the Teaching of History of Chemistry in Europe, Journal of Chemical Education

Proceedings from the International Conference on the History of Chemistry, Tokyo 2015

Conference theme: “Transformation of Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s”.

Van Spronsen Guide digitized and OCR version

Introduction to the Van Spronsen Guide by Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Van Spronsen, A Guide of European Museums and Expositions on Chemistry and History of Chemistry, the Federation of the European Chemical Societies, 1968.

Perspectives on Chemical Biography in the 21st Century

Isabel Malaquias and Peter J. T. Morris (ed.), Perspectives on Chemical Biography in the 21st Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, February 2019

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Science and Survival : Digitizing the Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

The Science History Institute has been awarded a $198,454 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for the project Science and Survival: Digitizing the Papers of Georg and Max Bredig.

Unlike many other archival collections of German Jewish scientists that were seized and destroyed by the Nazis, Georg Bredig’s papers miraculously survived. This award will be used to catalogue, translate, digitize, and make publicly accessible nearly 3,000 letters, photographs, and other documents from this newly rediscovered trove of rare historic material as well as the related war-time papers of Max Bredig, Georg’s son.

Georg Bredig (1868–1944) was a pioneering scientist in the field of physical chemistry who held important academic positions until his career was ended by the Nazis in 1933.

The pre-1933 materials detail Bredig’s early scientific training and his rise to international prominence during the golden age of German science.

The collection contains extensive correspondence with many Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics, including Svante Arrhenius, Wilhelm Ostwald, Niels Bohr, Ernst Rutherford, Fritz Haber, Max Planck, Walther Nernst, and Harold Urey. It is also a trove of portraits and group pictures, with all individuals meticulously identified by Georg Bredig.

For more information about the Science History Institute and this award, please visit the Science History Institute Website.