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CHEMISTRY International The News Magazine of IUPAC April-June 2018 Volume 40 No. 2 Chemistry and Cultural Heritage Jamaican Chemists in Early Global Communication Everything Flows INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY Chemistry International CHEMISTRY International Subscriptions Four issues of Chemistry International (ISSN 0193-6484) will be published quarterly in 2018 (one volume The News Magazine of the International Union of Pure and per annum) in January, April, July, and October. The 2018 subscription rate is USD 74.00 for individuals or Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) USD 116.00 for institutional subscription. 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This work is licensed under a Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 590 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, USA E-mail: [email protected], Phone: +1 617 358 0410 Cover: The understanding of the materials which make up works of art is key for conservation. Advanced analytical techniques are applied to characterize the materials aiming to establish whether a work is at risk Production: Joshua Gannon (detail from a painting of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian collection). A special Design: Stuart Wilson issue of IUPAC scientific journal Pure and Applied Chemistry (March 2018) is devoted to Chemistry and Printed by: Sheridan Communications Cultural Heritage; read more page 20. CHEMISTRY International Login to check CI online Subscribe to receive CI print For more info on CI, check www.degruyter.com/ci, or visit www.iupac.org/what-we-do/journals/chemistry-international/ Version couleur Contents CHEMISTRY International April-June 2018 Volume 40 No. 2 Past President's Column A Good Beginning Makes a Good Ending by Natalia Tarasova 2 Features Jamaican Chemists in Early Global Communication 5 by Robert Lancashire Everything Flows by Volker Hessel 12 by Leiv K. Sydnes World Metrology Day Health for All in Dhaka 17 www.worldmetrologyday.org ChemistryTaille and minimum Cultural Heritage by Maria J. Melo, Austin Nevin and 20 Piero Baglioni60 mm IUPAC Offers an Open Door to Chemists of the World 26 —a Program Revisited by Colin J. Humphris IUPAC Wire VersionSixth Polymer International–IUPAC1 couleur Award goes to Cyrille Boyer 29 Peter D.J. Grootenhuis is Awarded The 2018 IUPAC-Richter Prize 29 The United Nations Proclaims the International Year of the 30 Constant evolution Periodic Table of Chemical Elements The International System of Units 20 May 2018 © 2018 BIPM-OIML World Metrology Day, 20 May 2018 30 Science for Peace 31 Resolution on the Water Crisis in Gaza 32 The Chemical Weapons Convention: From Disarmament 32 to Sustainable Development Project Place Interdivisional Discussion of Critical Evaluation of 34 Chemistry Data Middle East Regional Cooperation and Sustainable Water 35 Management of Transboundary Water Call for input p. 25 Chemical and Biochemical Thermodynamics Reunification 38 ChemistryTaille Teacher minimum International 38 Human Health60 Riskmm Consideration of Nano-Enabled Pesticides for Industry and Regulators 38 IUPAC100 Periodic Table Challenge 39 Making an ImPACt Version niveau de gris Definition of the mole (IUPAC Recommendation 2017) 40 Terminology of separation methods 42 (IUPAC Recommendations 2017) Interpreting and propagating the uncertainty of the 42 standard atomic weights (IUPAC Technical Report) Mass and volume in analytical chemistry 42 (IUPAC Technical Report) Risk assessment of effects of cadmium on human health 43 (IUPAC Technical Report) Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related 43 IUPAC-AP-190x274-OK2.indd 2 12/05/2017 17:59 concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017) Bookworm “Speciation” Chemistry: Overdue for a Resurgence 44 IUPAC SilverTaille book—corrigendum minimum 45 60 mm continued on page 2 Dégradé 70 95 15 50 70 95 15 30 70 95 15 0 #44164F #562464 #713683 - LOGOTYPE IUPAC Paris 2019 Dégradé 0 100 100 30 0 100 100 0 - #AF1F1B #EC2B27 - - Dégradé 10 30 100 30 10 30 100 0 - #A6851E #E3B228 - - Dégradé 55 15 100 30 55 15 100 0 - #5D8232 #7FAC44 - - Dégradé 80 40 10 30 80 40 10 0 - #2A6189 #377FB4 - - Past President's Column the United Nations has recognized the importance of A Good raising global awareness of how chemistry promotes Beginning sustainable development and provides solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture, Makes a and health. Indeed, the resolution was adopted as part of a more general Agenda item on Science and Tech- Good Ending nology for Development. This International Year will by Natalia Tarasova bring together many dierent stakeholders, including UNESCO, scientific societies and unions, education- al and research institutions, technology platforms, n 28 July 2016, I received non-profit organizations, and private sector partners the following message to promote and celebrate the significance of the Peri- Ofrom Sir Martyn Poliakoff, odic Table and its applications to society in 2019. Professor at Nottingham University in the UK and a As I was involved in the activities of the 2011 Inter- Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, national Year of Chemistry Management Committee, who I have known for years. He wrote: the algorithm of the procedure was clear to me. The key element at the initial stage is to identify the coun- “Dear Natalia, try which will be willing, through its National Delega- I hope that you are well. I have realized that 2019 tion to UNESCO, to promote the idea of the IYPT. It is will be the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev’s pub- UNESCO, as the UN body, that can recommend that lication of the Periodic Table. Therefore, I was the UN General Assembly proclaim the year 2019 as the wondering whether IUPAC might lead a request to IYPT. In fact, the time we had to move the idea forward make 2019 the International Year of the Periodic was quite short. According to UN rules, the decision Table. I feel that this proposal might get a lot of must be taken two years in advance. My colleagues support. What do you think? from the IUPAC Executive Committee supported the idea of the IYPT in principle, though with healthy skep- Best Wishes ticism, based on the memories of the proclamation of Martyn.” the International Year of Chemistry in 2011. Russia, as the motherland of Dmitry Mendeleev, was chosen to It was the beginning of a story with a happy ending. lead the initiative through UNESCO. On 20 December 2017, the United Nations General On 30 September 2016, 3000 participants of the Assembly proclaimed 2019 the International Year of 20th Mendeleev Congress, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019) unanimously voted for the proclamation of the IYPT during its 74th Plenary Meeting, at the 72nd Session. in 2019. The resolution was supported by the Mende- In proclaiming an International Year focusing on the leev Russian Chemical Society and the Russian Acade- Periodic Table of Chemical Elements and its applications, my of Sciences. Based on this resolution, academician Table of Contents (cont.) Conference Call Chemistry and the Environment 46 Advanced Materials (POLYCHAR2017) 51 Bioorganic Chemistry in an Interdisciplinary Context 54 Where 2B & Y 56 Stamps International 58 Mark Your Calendar 59 2 Chemistry International April-June 2018 International Year Vladimir Fortov, at that time the President of the Rus- applied to element 113, 115, of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements sian Academy of Sciences, sent a letter to the Minister 117, and 118, respectively. for Foreign A airs of the Russian Federation, Sergey This event was widely cov- Lavrov, asking him for the support of the IYPT initiative ered by the mass media. 7 N in UNESCO. Simultaneously, the letter from the Russian In the beginning of 2017, IYPT 8 O Academy of Sciences (the Russian National Adhering the inauguration ceremo- Organization (NAO) for IUPAC) was sent to the IUPAC nies took place at the Oak Science – Society – World – Sustainable Development Secretariat. The Russian Academy of Sciences invit- Ridge National Labora- ed IUPAC to be the leading Union for the IYPT, as the tory (ORNL, USA), at the identifi cation of a leading international science union Joint Institute for Nucle- 2019 is a compulsory part of the UNESCO procedure. Based ar Research, Dubna and on this request, on 18 December 2016, I sent a letter to in Moscow (Russia), and Professor Irina Bokova, at that time the Director Gen- in Tokyo (Japan). During eral of UNESCO. I wrote: the inauguration ceremo- ny in Moscow, a letter to 1869 ”It is with great pleasure that the International UNESCO was signed by The 2019 IYPT Prospectus Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) ac- the director of the ORNL, cepts the invitation from the Russian Academy of Thomas Mason, the director of Lawrence Livermore Na- Sciences to be the main sponsoring organization tional Laboratory (LLNL, USA), William Goldstein, and for the application to UNESCO that 2019 be des- the director of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research ignated as the International Year of the Periodic (Dubna, Russia), academician Victor Matveev. In this let- Table of Chemical Elements, celebrating the 150th ter, they supported the IUPAC appeal to UNESCO on the Anniversary of the Mendeleev Periodic Table….
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