The birth of a chemical society

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 7757-7759

  Scorrano, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

History of chemistry; Italian chemical society

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SOCIETIES; HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY; ITALIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY;

EID: 68349088949     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900102     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. http://www.fiatgroup.com (accessed June 2007). More or less in the same years: the Lumieres invented (1895) cinematography, Marconi the radio (1896), and Hoffman the aspirin (1899).
2. http://www.aci.it and Franz Rodi-Marabito,"Storia dell'Automobile Italiana"; see also http://www.spaziotremila.it/storiadeirauto.
3. "Storia délie ferrovie Italiane" in Cronologia, http://cronologia.leonardo.it.
4. 2100 anni di storia delle FS: un quadro di sintesi", Partei.; http:// www.miol.it/stagniweb/FS101.htm.
5. http://www.telecomitalia.it, 2007.
6. The Royal Society of Chemistry: The First 150 Years (Eds.: D.H. Whiffen, D. H. Hey), RSC, London, 1991.
7. The introduction by Professor Armand Lattes to the 2007 Congress of the Société Française de Chemie (http://www.scf07.fr/site/spip. php?article32) reads: ""The genesis of the "Société Francaise de Chemie" (SCF) could be traced back to 1857, when three students, Arnaudon, Collinet, and Ubaldini, working with renowned chemists (Baiard, Berthelot, Chevreul, and Dumas) decided to create a society aimed at providing the "latest progress in Chemistry". This "club", which was originally holding a weekly meeting in a Café in the Latin Quarter of Paris, was then structured as the Société Chimique de Paris in 1858 with new bylaws, and elected the first President, J.-B. Dumas in 1859. It became the "Société Chimique de France" (SCF) just before the commemoration of its 50th anniversary. It is only 126 years later, on March 15, 1983, that the actual "Société Francaise de Chemie" (SCF) was founded from two merging societies, namely, the "SCF" and the "Société de Chimie Physique" (founded in 1908)".
8. http://www.gdch.de/gdch-e.htm is the address for the site of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker which succeeded the Society of Berlin.
9. a) Angelo Coppadoro, I chimici italiani e le loro associazioni, Editrice di Chimica, Milano, 1961, p. 10;
10. b) Angelo Coppadoro, I chimici italiani e le loro associazioni, Editrice di Chimica, Milano, 1961, p. 50;
11. c) Angelo Coppadoro, I chimici italiani e le loro associazioni, Editrice di Chimica, Milano, 1961, p. 51;
12. d) Angelo Coppadoro, I chimici italiani e le loro associazioni, Editrice di Chimica, Milano, 1961, pp. 58-59;
13. e) Angelo Coppadoro, I chimici italiani e le loro associazioni, Editrice di Chimica, Milano, 1961, p. 59 ;
14. f) Angelo Coppadoro, I chimici italiani e le loro associazioni, Editrice di Chimica, Milano, 1961, pp. 70-71;
15. g) Angelo Coppadoro, I chimici italiani e le loro associazioni, Editrice di Chimica, Milano, 1961, p. 139.
16. Giornale di Chimica Industriale ed Applicata, 1928, 10, 599-600.
17. Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826-1910, then Professor at the University of Palermo, later (from 1971) in Rome); Ugo Schiff (1834-1915); Luigi Gabba (1841-1916, Professor (from 1872) at the Royal Technical Superior Institute, later Polytechnic of Milan); Francesco Selmi (1817-1881, Professor from 1867 at the University of Bologna); Paolo Tassinari (1829-1909, Professor (1861) at the University of Pisa); Emanuele Paternò (1847-1935, then assistant to Cannizzaro, later (1872) Professor in Palermo and in Rome (1893)), Domenico Amato (1839-1897, then assistant to Schiff).
18. The meeting is impressively described in the article written by Paterno and reprinted in the "Gazzetta Chimica Italiana" in 1971, pp. 57, to celebrate the centenary of the Journal.
19. The "Section Lombardia" of the Italian Chemical Society has always maintained, even after the building of a National Chemical Society, a semi-independent status; for instance, up to the last change of statute (November 17, 1992) it has retained the privilege of directly collecting the dues (even with a surcharge for the local section) charged to the associated members.