scholarly journals Special Issue Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society)

Author(s):  
Anne Deveson
2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Wolfram Koch

Abstract In 2017, the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) celebrated the 150th anniversary of the creation the older of its two predecessor organizations, the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft.


Author(s):  
Peter P. Edwards ◽  
Russell G. Egdell ◽  
Dieter Fenske ◽  
Benzhen Yao

The historical roots, the discovery and the modern relevance of Dmitri Mendeleev's remarkable advance have been the subject of numerous scholarly works. Here, with a brief overview, we hope to provide a link into the contents of this special issue honouring the great scientist. Mendeleev's advance, announced in March 1869, as he put it in 1889, to the ‘… then youthful Russian Chemical Society… ’, first set out the very basis of the periodic law of the chemical elements, the natural relation between the properties of the elements and their atomic weights. This was, and still is, the centrepiece of a historical journey for chemistry to today's position as a pre-eminent science. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Mendeleev and the periodic table'.


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