Members of the SCS are now entitled to a discount on personal RÖMPP licenses

Thieme and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) have entered a cooperation for the chemical encyclopedia RÖMPP. Members of the SCS are now eligible for personal access to RÖMPP at special conditions: Regular members can purchase a RÖMPP license at an annual license fee of 175 CHF, students and PhDs pay 75 CHF.

 

Read more in the press release and on the SCS RÖMPP website (both in German language).

 

 

David Spichiger, SCS
17.02.2014

EuCheMS Brussels News Update, Feb 2014

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Prix Expo der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften

Die Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT) lädt ein zur Eingabe von Bewerbungen für den Prix Expo 2014. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an Macher von naturwissenschaftlichen Ausstellungen.

Bewerbungsschluss: 1. Juni 2014

Mit dem Prix Expo zeichnet die SCNAT Ausstellungen in der Schweiz aus, welche die Faszination der Natur und der Naturwissenschaften einem breiten Publikum fachlich fundiert und erlebnisorientiert vermitteln. Die Ausstellungen müssen während mindestens drei Monaten in der Schweiz gezeigt und in einer der vier Landessprachen vermittelt werden. Der Prix Expo ist mit CHF 10'000 dotiert und wird von der SCNAT jährlich vergeben.

More information:
http://www.scnat.ch/d/Preise/Prix_Expo/Ausschreibung/

David Spichiger, SCS
11.02.2014

ChemElectroChem: first online issue available now

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ChemElectroChem is the new sister journal to Angewandte Chemie, ChemPhysChem and nine more journals of the ChemPubSoc Europe journal family. 

 

Electrochemistry is one of the fastest-growing fields in chemistry today, in terms of both basic and applied chemistry. Moreover, it has developed a strong interdisciplinary flavor due to the emergence of bioelectrochemistry and the development of alternative energy sources.

Enjoy the exciting articles of this first issue of ChemElectroChem now.

For more excellent papers, check the journal's homepage. 

 

Complimentary Online Access for Institutions

Your institution can get complimentary online access to ChemElectroChem until end of 2014, and can retain online access to all content published until then with or without a paid subscription in subsequent years! 

Take this opportunity and recommend ChemElectroChem to your librarian and ask your librarian to opt-in for complimentary online access.

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ChemElectroChem is a new high-quality society journal and your opportunity to get your paper published online soon. It will follow the same high-quality peer-reviewing process and author services as all other ChemPubSoc Europe Journals.

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David Spichiger, SCS
06.02.2014

 

KGF-SCS Industrial Investigator Award Winners 2014

The Swiss Chemical Society and the Contact group for research matters (KGF) are proud and happy to announce the winners of the KGF-SCS Industrial Investigator Awards 2014 and to honor their outstanding achievements. 

We sincerely congratulate all winners and we are looking forward to the ceremonies and award lectures that will take place on the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 10 and 11, 2014.


KGF-SCS Distinguished Industrial Investigator Award
CHF 15'000
The award is given to  

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Dr. Hans-Ulrich Blaser,

for his outstanding contributions to the development of highly selective and efficient catalysts for the industrial production of bioactive chiral compounds and for the leading role he played in asymmetric catalysis in both industry and academia.

 

KGF-SCS Senior Industrial Investigator Award
CHF 10'000
The award is given to 

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Dr. Werner Neidhart, F. Hoffmann La Roche,

for his contributions to medicinal chemistry and the creation of multiple candidate drugs, particularly Endothelin antagonists Avosentan and Clazosentan and the marketed Bosentan/Tracleer.



KGF-SCS Industrial Investigator Award
CHF 7'000
The award is given to  

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Dr. Andreas Natsch, Givaudan Schweiz AG,

for his thorough investigation into the chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology of axilla malodor, culminating in the suppression of  malodor causing processes and in the development of bacterial fragrance release from new families of odorant precursors

and
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Dr. Wolfgang Jahnke, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel,

for his excellence in developing and applying biomolecular NMR spectroscopy and fragment-based lead discovery, resulting in crucial contributions to many drug discovery projects.

 

The prize program is supported by KGF:

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David Spichiger, SCS
05.02.2014

 

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