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Back to France to Celebrate the Century-Old IUPAC: The 47th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress & 50th General Assembly

  • Clément Sanchez

    Clément Sanchez, chair IUPAC-2019

    and Jean-Pierre Vairon

    Jean-Pierre Vairon, coordinator IUPAC-2019

From the journal Chemistry International

Abstract

On behalf of the French Academy of Sciences and of its National Committee for Chemistry, the French National Adhering Organization to IUPAC, gathering the main academic and research institutions, learned societies, and industrial organizations relevant to Chemistry, we are very pleased and honoured to invite you to participate and contribute to the IUPAC 47th World Chemistry Congress to be held at the Palais des Congrès, Paris, France, 7-12 July 2019.

This IUPAC-2019 Congress (7-12 July) and the joint 50th General Assembly (5-12 July) will present a unique character as both will celebrate the Centenary of the Union. A Union conceived in Paris, elaborated in London and signed in Brussels between April and July 1919. Special events will be organized all week long, encompassing a Celebration plenary session organized together with the IUPAC100 Committee, a Celebratory evening organized by the Young Scientists at the Maison de la Chimie, a Celebration Gala Dinner, and an official Ceremony organized at the Sorbonne whereby France will celebrate the Century Old Union in presence of the high governmental and academic authorities, the IUPAC Council, the NAOs delegations, high level scientists, world chemical industry managers and invited honorary guests.

With the theme “Frontiers in Chemistry: Let’s create our Future! 100 years with IUPAC,” the programme of such a general congress was built to merge the different fields of chemistry and to address today’s most challenging issues relevant to human well-being, renewable energy resources, and sustainable development; as well as to cross themes highly connected to current real world problems. Yet it does remain broad enough to welcome every contribution whatever the domain of research or the academic/industrial origins of the Congress participants. The programme has been reviewed by a worldwide panel of recognized scientists. Furthermore, dedicated symposia will consider the educational, historical, gender, and other timely aspects together with the currently highly sensitive question of the image of Chemistry and its perception by society, which will be considered in a special symposium involving a public panel discussion. A dense Young Scientists programme organized by the French YS network together with the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN) is also planned throughout the week.

IUPAC Centenary is a unique opportunity to project the universal values of IUPAC and it is worth remembering that the Union welcomes both scientists from pure academic research as well as those involved in applied and industrial aspects. Particular attention has been paid to the participation of chemists from all continents (speakers from more than 30 countries have been invited) and all our sponsors. The major world chemical companies encouraged their researchers and engineers to communicate together with the academic scientists in the same symposia. We do expect a huge scientific contribution from industry.

Presidents or CEO of several internationally important chemical companies have already decided to attend part of the Congress and to participate in the Celebration events. We are planning a World Chemistry Leadership Meeting (WCLM) with a plenary panel discussion gathering six or seven of these high-level managers from all over the world.

Some 30 Symposia are offered, with multiple half-day sessions co-organized by teams of foreign and French scientists. About 900 oral presentations will be delivered, including about 250 invited lectures and 650 oral contributions open to regular attendees. Two (or three) sessions of 1000 posters each will be organized throughout the week. Eight Plenary Lectures (general) and 10 Thematic Honorary Lectures (specialized), covering all Congress topics, will be delivered by prestigious scientists.

 Members of the IUPAC2019 organizing team: Stanislas Pommeret, Clémentine Vallet (PCO), Adrian Auger (PCO), Jean-Pierre Vairon, Clément Sanchez, Nicole Moreau, and Nöel Baffier

Members of the IUPAC2019 organizing team: Stanislas Pommeret, Clémentine Vallet (PCO), Adrian Auger (PCO), Jean-Pierre Vairon, Clément Sanchez, Nicole Moreau, and Nöel Baffier

 XVIth IUPAC Congress, Sorbonne, Paris, 1957 In July 1957, Paris welcomed IUPAC by hosting both the Congress at the Sorbonne University, and concurrently the ‘Conférence internationale de la chimie’, i.e. the equivalent of today’s General Assembly at the Maison de la Chimie. During the Congress—attendance pictured above in the main auditorium of La Sorbonne—900 communications by authors of 36 countries were presented. The main sessions covered topics in physical chemistry (with 202 communications), inorganic chemistry (153), and organic chemistry (547). The inaugural lecture was presented by Giulio Natta, who six years later won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1963) with Karl Ziegler for their discoveries in the field on the chemistry and technology of high polymers. The Gala Dinner was hosted in The Orangerie in Versailles, followed a unique presentation of L’Impromptu de Versailles, a play by Molière. Also celebrated concurrently to the 16th IUPAC Congress in July 1957 was the centenary of the French Chemical Society. These celebrations included a plenary session at La Sorbonne with a plenary by Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1956) and an interlude by the Symphonic Orchestra of the Republican Guard, and a reception in the Domaine de Chantilly par François Albert-Buisson, Chancelier of the Institut de France, Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and Member of the Académie française.

XVIth IUPAC Congress, Sorbonne, Paris, 1957

In July 1957, Paris welcomed IUPAC by hosting both the Congress at the Sorbonne University, and concurrently the ‘Conférence internationale de la chimie’, i.e. the equivalent of today’s General Assembly at the Maison de la Chimie. During the Congress—attendance pictured above in the main auditorium of La Sorbonne—900 communications by authors of 36 countries were presented. The main sessions covered topics in physical chemistry (with 202 communications), inorganic chemistry (153), and organic chemistry (547). The inaugural lecture was presented by Giulio Natta, who six years later won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1963) with Karl Ziegler for their discoveries in the field on the chemistry and technology of high polymers. The Gala Dinner was hosted in The Orangerie in Versailles, followed a unique presentation of L’Impromptu de Versailles, a play by Molière. Also celebrated concurrently to the 16th IUPAC Congress in July 1957 was the centenary of the French Chemical Society. These celebrations included a plenary session at La Sorbonne with a plenary by Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1956) and an interlude by the Symphonic Orchestra of the Republican Guard, and a reception in the Domaine de Chantilly par François Albert-Buisson, Chancelier of the Institut de France, Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and Member of the Académie française.

The Year 2019 is a very unique year for Chemistry. Besides the IUPAC100 events all along 2019 and the IUPAC 47th WCC in July, the year as been declared by UN the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT2019), linked to the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table, with an opening Ceremony at UNESCO headquarters, Paris this past January, a closing in Tokyo in December, and several important events like the 4th International Conference on the Periodic Table (Mendeleev 150) in Saint-Petersburg, 26-28 July 2019. Furthermore, the 51st International Chemistry Olympiads (IChO) will take place 21-30 July also in Paris.

The 2019 IUPAC General Assembly (GA) will be held, 5-12 July, both at the Palais des Congrès, porte Maillot, Paris, (Bureau, Divisions, Standing Committees) and at the neighbouring Hyatt Hotel (Council).

Again, we welcome all to Paris on the occasion of these unique IUPAC-2019 World Chemistry Congress and Union Centenary Events!

For those who could stay in Paris longer until the weekend of 13-14 July, we highly recommend enjoying our Bastille Day with its friendly atmosphere, fireworks, and festive events!

www.IUPAC2019.org

Über die Autoren

Clément Sanchez

Clément Sanchez, chair IUPAC-2019

Jean-Pierre Vairon

Jean-Pierre Vairon, coordinator IUPAC-2019

Online erschienen: 2019-04-01
Erschienen im Druck: 2019-04-01

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