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IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry

Since 2011, IUPAC has recognized the contributions that women have made in the field and presented a number of the women with the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award. Who are they?

2019-12-31

IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists 2000-2019

by Mark C. Cesa, INEOS USA LLC (retired), 2014-2015 President, IUPAC; Natalia Tarasova, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology; Director, Institute of Chemistry and Problems of Sustainable Development; 2016-2017 President, IUPAC; Paul Baekelmans, Science Advisor, Solvay; Chair, National Committee for Chemistry, Belgium; Titular Member, IUPAC Committee on Chemistry and Industry

2019-12-11

Systems Thinking to Educate about the Molecular Basis of Sustainability

by Peter Mahaffy*, Professor of Chemistry at the King’s University, Edmonton, AB (Canada), and Director, the King’s Centre for Visualization of Science; Stephen Matlin, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, and International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development, Namur (Belgium).

2019-10-02

Healthy Life and Active Ageing — The Contribution of Functional Food Ingredients

by Amelia P. Rauter; Mary J. Garson; Francesco Nicotra

2019-09-18

A Partnership of Science and Diplomacy to Eliminate Chemical Weapons

by Jonathan Forman, Science Policy Adviser and Secretary to the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; Mark C. Cesa 2014-2015 IUPAC President

2019-08-02

IUPAC Contributes to Global Chemical Safety by Training Leaders in Developing Countries

by Bernard West, President Westworks Consulting Limited, Past Chair, IUPAC Committee on Chemistry and Industry, Past Coordinator, IUPAC COCI Safety Training Program; Robert Audette, STP Coordinator, IUPAC COCI Safety Training Program

2019-07-29

The IUPAC Gold Book

by Stuart Chalk ([email protected]) University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL USA. Titular Member, CPCDS Subcommittee on Cheminformatics Data Standards; Task Group Chair “Backup, Maintenance, and Redevelopment of the IUPAC Gold Book Website”

2019-05-15

The New SI

by Ian Mills, emeritus professor at the University of Reading, UK; Roberto Marquardt, professor at the Université de Strasbourg, France

2019-05-02

IUPAC Glossaries of Terms Used in Toxicology

by John H. Duffus, Chair, IUPAC Subcommitee on Toxicology and Risk Assessment

2019-04-22

IUPAC in the (real) clouds

by R. Anthony Cox ; Markus Ammann; John N. Crowley; Hartmut Herrmann; Michael E. Jenkin; V. Faye McNeill; Abdel Wahid Mellouki; Michel J. Rossi; Jurgen Troe; Timothy J. Wallington

2019-03-21

A Common Language for Chemistry and More

by Bonnie Lawlor, Chair, IUPAC Committee on Publications and Cheminformatics Data Standards

2019-03-06

IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry

by Fabienne Meyers, IUPAC Associate Director; Carolyn Ribes, Chair of the Committee on Chemistry and Industry; Angela K. Wilson, Past President of the Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division

2019-01-23

A Weighted Service to Chemistry

by John R. De Laeter, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia ; Juris Meija, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada

2019-01-04

Successful Drug Discovery

by János Fischer, IUPAC Division VII, Chemistry and Human Health, Subcommittee on Drug Discovery and Development

2018-09-25

Nomenclature Notes

by Jeffery Leigh, emeritus professor, University of Sussex

2018-09-19

Why Isotopes Matter!

by Peter Mahaffy, Brian Martin, and Rob Macdonald, Professors, Ashley Elgersma, Shawn Ritter, Rachel Hislop-Hook, Mckenzie Oliver, Tyler deBoon, Marc-Olivier Lajeuneuse, and Ashley Ritter, Student Researchers, The King’s Centre for Visualization in Science ; Tyler Coplen, Reston Stable Isotopes Laboratory Director, Lauren Tarbox, Jacqueline Benefield, US Geological Survey ; Norman Holden, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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