150th Anniversary Weltkongress Chemie

Progress and Challenges in Chemistry

Exhibition

Please note the "Weltkongress" exhibition at the "24-Stunden-Bibliothek - Campus Süd", which is additionally accessible via the internet

Contact

Fakultät für Chemie und Biowissenschaften

Kaiserstraße 12
76131 Karlsruhe

chemie2010ka@kit.edu

Photografer: Alex Stiebritz / AMX-Design

fltr: Richard Schrock, Hansgeorg Schnöckel, Peter Roesky, Pekka Pyykkö, Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Helmut Schwarz, Doris Wedlich, Manfred Kappes, Horst Hippler, Stefan Bräse, Paul Crutzen, Alan Rocke (back), Matthias Olzmann, Carsten Reinhardt, Ursula Weltzien, Ferdi Schüth, Hans Ulrich Weltzien, Joachim Podlech, Heinrich Weltzien, Olaf Deutschmann, Eva Weltzien, Burkhard Luy, Jean-Marie Lehn

The 150^th Anniversary Weltkongress Chemie is over. We thank all speakers,sponsors, participants and helpers, which made this very special event so successful.

We are now looking forward to our 200^th anniversary in 2060 ;-)

Reports on this conference have been published: KIT, ChemistryViews

150^th Anniversary Weltkongress Chemie - Progress and Challenges in Chemistry

September 3.-4., 2010 in Karlsruhe

The first international congress in chemistry held in september 1860 in Karlsruhe/Germany established a paradigm shift for the understanding of chemistry and was trigger for the development of the periodic table by Mendeleev and Meyer soon after.

In celebrating this eminent meeting a congress "150^th Anniversary Weltkongress Chemie - Progress and Challenges in Chemistry" is announced. It is to take the chance to face and discuss major breakthroughs made in the last decades and challenges waiting for us in the near future.

Please make a note of the date already today: In September 3.-4., 2010 the chemical world meets in Karlsruhe and we cordially invite you to come to Karlsruhe for this special congress.

The historical invitation by the organizer Professor Carl W. Weltzien started as follows:

Dear Distinguished Colleague,

The great development that has taken place in chemistry in recent years, and the differences in theoretical opinions that have emerged, make a Congress, whose goal is the discussion of some important questions as seen from the standpoint of the future progress of the science, both timely and useful.

The undersigned invite to this meeting all chemists authorized by their work or position to express an opinion in a scientific discussion.

Such an assembly cannot deliberate on behalf of everyone, nor can it pass resolutions by which everyone must abide, but by means of a free and thorough discussion, certain misunderstandings could be eliminated, and a common agreement facilitated on some of the following points: the definition of important chemical notions, such as those expressed by the words atom, molecule, equivalent, atomic, basic; the examination of the question of equivalents and of chemical formulae; the institution of a notation and of a uniform nomenclature.

Knowing that the assembly's deliberations would not be of a nature such as to reconcile all opinions and eliminate all disagreements immediately, the undersigned believe, nevertheless, that such works could pave the way for a much desired agreement between chemists in the future, at least where the most important questions are concerned. A commission could be charged to continue the investigation of these questions and to interest in them learned academies or societies with the necessary material means for resolving them.

The Congress will convene in Karlsruhe on 3 September 1860.