Polish Chemical Society


The Polish Chemical Society is a professional scientific society of Polish chemists.

History

The society was founded of 118 Charter Members on 29 June 1919 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.
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.
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’’.

Awards of the Polish Chemical society

The society confers the following awards:
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.