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Learned society
Polish Chemical Society
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Abbreviation
| PTCHEM
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Formation
| 29 June 1919
; 104 years ago
(
1919-06-29
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Type
| Learned society
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Purpose
| Research
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Headquarters
| Warsaw
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Location
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Membership
| 1,959
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Official language
| Polish
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Key people
| Izabela Nowak (
President
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Website
| http://ptchem.pl/pl
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The
Polish Chemical Society
(
Polish
:
Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne,
PTCHem
) is a professional
learned society
of Polish
chemists
founded in 1919 to represent the interests of Polish chemists on the local, national and international levels.
History
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The society was founded of 118 Charter Members on 29 June 1919
[1]
on the initiative of
Leon Marchlewski
, Stanisław B?dzy?ski and
Ignacy Mo?cicki
, 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. It was founded in three Polish cities:
Lwow
(today
Lviv
in Ukraine),
Krakow
, and
Warsaw
and the first scientific meeting was organized in Warsaw on 1 November 1919 by the executive board of the society.
[2]
The Polish Chemical Society initiated a series of scientific conferences as well as founded Poland's first chemistry journal
Roczniki Chemii
.
[3]
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
.
[3]
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]
Currently, the offices of the society are located in the 18th-century tenement building at Freta Street 16 in the historic city center of Warsaw. The building is the birthplace of
Marie Curie
and also houses the
Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum
(MMSC).
[4]
Awards of the Polish Chemical Society
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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".
The society confers the following awards:
Honorary members
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Currently there are 148 honorary members of the society including:
[5]
See also
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References
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Chemistry societies
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Asia and
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