GDCh international: Annual Meeting of the EuChemS Working Party “Ethics in Chemistry”

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Annual Meeting of the EuChemS Working Party “Ethics in Chemistry”

The discussion meeting was held on October 7–8, 2019 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with all presentations tackling ethical issues related to chemistry.

Hartmut Frank (Germany), chairman of the working party, discussed the 150^th anniversary of the Periodic Table and elaborated in his talk that many scientists contributed to the development of the Periodic Table. Therefore, in the light of ethical issues a single focus on Dimitri I. Mendeleev during the Unesco International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019) is not correct [s. Nachr. Chem. 2019, 67(11), 3].

Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü (Turkey), former Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and honorary member of the working party, reported on his work at OPCW and asked in his presentation: “Is the use of chemical weapons no longer a taboo?” Ionel Haiduc (Romania) showed the different facets of ethical issues in publishing research results. Cristina Todasca (Romania), member of the EuChemS Executive Board, presented aspects of the relation between foo

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