Polish Chemical Society

The Polish Chemical Society (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne, PTCHEM) is a professional scientific society of Polish chemists.

Polish Chemical Society
Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne
AbbreviationPTCHEM
Formation29 June 1919 (1919-06-29)
TypeScientific
PurposeResearch
HeadquartersWarsaw
Location
Membership
1,959
Key people
Izabela Nowak (President)
Websitehttp://ptchem.pl/pl
Bronze bust of Marie Curie, on green marble stand. Presented by the Polish Chemical Society to the Royal Institute of Chemistry on the latter's centenary in 1977. Now in the Royal Society of Chemistry's HQ at Burlington House, London. Gold lettering on the stand reads "Maria Skłodowska Curie 1867-1934".

History

The society was founded of 118 Charter Members on 29 June 1919[1] on the initiative of Leon Marchlewski, Stanisław Bądzyński and Ignacy Mościcki, future President of Poland who was a chemist himself. The initial aim of the organization was to bring together Polish chemists previously working under different partitions as well as from abroad. The Polish Chemical Society initiated a series of scientific conferences as well as founded Poland's first chemistry journal Roczniki Chemii.[2]

After the Second World War, the society was reactivated in 1946 and continues its activities until today. It has 1,959 members, who work in 20 regional centres. In 2006, the Polish Chemical Society became a public benefit organization.[2]

The statute states that one of the goals of the society is ‘‘the encouragement of progress of chemical science and propagation thereof among the public, as well as representation of the professional interests of chemists, both researchers and those industrially employed’’.[1]

Awards of the Polish Chemical society

The society confers the following awards:

Honorary members

Currently there are 148 honorary members of the society including Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Paul Sabatier, Marie Curie, Józef Boguski, Ignacy Mościcki, Henry Edward Armstrong, Bohuslav Brauner, Victor Grignard, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Leon Marchlewski, Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Kazimierz Fajans, S. P. L. Sørensen, Leopold Ružička, Ilya Prigogine, Theodor Svedberg, Max Bodenstein, Richard Kuhn, Irving Langmuir, Robert Robinson, Roger Adams, Ronald G.W. Norrish, Krishnasami Venkataraman, Alan R. Katritzky and Rolf Huisgen.[3]

See also

References
  1. Lichocka, Halina (2008). Creating Networks in Chemistry: The Founding and Early History of Chemical Societies in Europe. RSC Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85404-279-1.
  2. "News". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. "President of honour and honorary members of PTChem". Retrieved 23 February 2020.
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