The Société Chimique de France (SCF) is a learned society and professional association founded in 1857 to represent the interests of French chemists in a variety of ways in local, national and international contexts. Until 2009 the organization was known as the Société Française de Chimie.
History The Society traces its origins back to an organization of young Parisian chemists who began meeting in May 1857 under the name Société Chimique, with the goal of self-study and mutual education. In 1858 the established chemist Adolphe Wurtz joined the society, now named the Société Chimique de Paris, and immediately transformed it into a learned society modeled after the Chemical Society of London, which was the precursor of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Like its British counterpart, the French association sought to foster the communication of new ideas and facts throughout France and across international borders. In 1906, the society changed its name from Société Chimique de Paris to Société Chimique de France; in 1983 it became the Société Française de Chimie; and in 2009 it returned to the name Société Chimique de France.
Activities Support for the Bulletin de la Société Chimique de Paris began in 1858. In the 21st century, the society has become a member of European Chemical Society, which is an organization of 16 European chemical societies. This European consortium was established in the late 1990s as many chemical journals owned by national chemical societies were amalgamated. In 2010 they started ChemistryViews.org, their news and information service for chemists and other scientists worldwide.
Prizes and awards The society acknowledges individual achievement with prizes and awards, including:
Raymond Berr Prize 1954: Charles Glacet 1955: Raymond Jean Calas 1958: Guy Ourisson 1961: Marc Julia 1965: Robert Collongues 1967: Jean-Pierre Ebel 1970: Pierre Potier 1972: Jean Flahaut 1976: Henri B. Kagan 1978: Jean-Marie Lehn 1979: J. P. Kovalevsky 1981: Bernard Trémillon 1985: Philippe Sautet 1988: François Mathey 1993: Pierre Sigwalt Lavoisier Medal of the Société Chimique de France is awarded to a person or institution in order to distinguish the work or actions which have enhanced the perceived value of chemistry in society. 1904: James Dewar 1906: William Perkin 1912: Victor Grignard 1922: Theodore William Richards 1935: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood 1948: Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd 1949: Rudolf Signer 1954: Iraj Lalezari 1955: Karl Ziegler 1968: Robert Burns Woodward 1983: Paul B. Weisz 1992: Marc Julia and Raymond Wey 1993: William M. Hess, Armand Lattes, Ernest Maréchal, Eugène Papirer and L.-A. Plaquette 1994: David A. Evans; Marco Aurelio de Paoli; Rudolph Marcus; Steven Wolff 1995: Derek Barton; Rudolf Hoppe 1997: Jean-Marie Lehn 1998: Jean-Baptiste Donnet 1999: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) 2000: F. Albert Cotton 2004: Fred McLafferty 2013: Gérard Férey 2015: Jacques Livage, Henri B. Kagan 2018: Christian Amatore 2023: Jean-Marie Tarascon
See also List of engineering awards List of chemistry awards List of chemistry societies Royal Society of Chemistry, 1841 Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, 1867 American Chemical Society, 1876 Chemical Society of Japan, 1878
Notes
External links Société Chimique de France website