Photos SCS Fall Meeting 2018 at EPFL Lausanne: Registration and Welcome

Website of the SCS Fall Meeting 2018: https://scg.ch/fallmeeting/2018

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Photos: Alain Herzog, EPFL Lausanne, and team

Photos of the SCS Fall Meeting Aperitif on Sep 6, 2018

On the eve of the SCS Fall Meeting on September 6, 2018, about 60 guests of the SCS joined the aperitif and the conference dinner. SCS prize winners, sponsoring partners, delegates from partner societies, FM session chairs and SCS board memberers participated and enjoyed the evening that was perfectly organized by Prof. Sandrine Gerber, EPFL, and her team. 

Enjoy browsing throuth the impressions of the aperitif and the prize ceremonies:

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Photos: Alain Herzog, EPFL Lausanne, and team

SCS Prize Ceremonies on the Occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting 2018

On the eve of the SCS Fall Meeting 2018 in Lausanne, the Swiss Chemical Society celebrated the prize winners 2018 and honored three individuals and one team for their outstanding, scientific contributions.
All winners contributed an invited lecture to one of the plenary sessions of the SCS Fall Meeting and gave an isight into their research activities of the past years.

We like to take to opportunity to congratulates all winnders again for their exiting achievments and we are looking forward to their CHIMIA articels next year that will be published in issue 7-8/2019.
 

The Swiss Chemical Society awarded

Prof. Ruedi Aebersold, ETH Zurich,
the Paracelsus Award 2018
for his exceptional and visionary contributions to the field of proteomics in general and to the fields of analytical chemistry, protein chemistry, and mass spectrometry specifically.

Dr. Paul W. Manley, Novartis Pharmaceuticals AG, Basel,
the SISF-SCS Distinguished Investigator Award 2018 
for his impressive track record of success as a medicinal chemist, including 31 years in Basel at Sandoz/Novartis, working in several disease areas and on multiple classes of drug targets, including the invention of the commercial antileukemia drug Nilotinib.

Dr. Clemens Lamberth, Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Stein,
the SISF-SCS Senior Investigator Award 2018
for his impressive track record of success in the field of fungicide research within Crop Protection, including the invention of the fungicide Mandipropamid (Revus®, Pergado®).

to the team from Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Stein (AG), namely
Dr. Raymonde Fonné-Pfister,
Dr. Claudio Screpanti,
Dr. Alain De Mesmaeker and
Dr. Harro Bouwmeester, University of Amsterdam,
the Sandmeyer Award 2018
for their pioneering work on Strigolactones that can be considered a collaboration masterpiece between Industry and Academia to explore novel area of this phytohormonal family. 

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Photos: Alain Herzog, EPFL Lausanne, and team

Element Scarcity – EuChemS Periodic Table

The smartphone you may be using right now to look at this unique Periodic Table is made up of some 30 elements – over half of which may give cause for concern in the years to come because of increasing scarcity. The issue of element scarcity cannot be stressed enough. With some 10 million smartphones being discarded or replaced every month in the European Union alone, we need to carefully look at our tendencies to waste and improperly recycle such items. Unless solutions are provided, we risk seeing many of the natural elements that make up the world around us run out – whether because of limited supplies, their location in conflict areas, or our incapacity to fully recycle them. 

Protecting endangered elements needs to be achieved on a number of levels. As individuals, we need to question whether upgrades to our phones and other electronic devices are truly necessary, and we need to make sure that we recycle correctly to avoid old electronics don’t end up in landfill sites or polluting the environment. On a political level, we need to see a greater recognition of the risk element scarcity poses, and moves need to be made to support better recycling practices and an efficient circular economy. Moreover, transparency and ethical issues need to be considered to avoid the abuse of human rights, as well as to allow citizens to make informed choices when purchasing smartphones or other electronics – as many of the elements we require in our electronics are imported from conflict zones.

2019 has been pronounced the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT2019), and EuChemS, the European Chemical Society, hopes that this unique and thought-provoking Periodic Table will lead to reflection and ultimately, action. Over the next year, they will provide featured articles on specific elements, their endangered status, and the consequences this will have on the world around us.

The Periodic Table is available for free download. Please note that the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivs CC BY-ND.

Support notes, which explain in more detail how the Periodic Table has been designed, and which also include some questions for students, will soon be available for download on the EuChemS website.

Spread the word and help protect endangered elements! Share on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and follow the conversation through #elementscarcity & #IYPT2019. 

https://www.euchems.eu/iypt2019/