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Series XVI. National Adhering Organizations, 1921-1993

 Series
Identifier: XVI

Scope and Content

From the Collection:

The Addenda to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Records contains the organizational records of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, which mainly cover the period from 1973 to 1995. The records are arranged into the following twenty-one series:

From the Collection:
  1. Council
  2. Bureau
  3. Executive Committee
  4. Finance Committee
  5. Meetings of Division Presidents and Records of Executive Secretary
  6. Publications Committee
  7. Standing Committees
  8. Physical Chemistry Division (Division I)
  9. Inorganic Chemistry Division (Division II)
  10. Organic Chemistry Division (Division III)
  11. Macromolecular Chemistry Division (Division IV)
  12. Analytical Chemistry Division (Division V)
  13. Applied Chemistry Division (Division VI)
  14. Clinical Chemistry Division (Division VII)
  15. Medicinal Chemistry Section (III.4)
  16. National Adhering Organizations
  17. Company Associates
  18. Observer Countries
  19. General Files
  20. IUPAC Conferences
  21. Conferences Sponsored by IUPAC

Dates

  • Creation: 1921-1993

Series Description

National Adhering Organizations (NAOs) are the national chemistry organizations that represent countries who are members of IUPAC. They play an active role in IUPAC’s governance. Each individual member country is represented by a single National Adhering Organization. A National Adhering Organization can be a national chemical council, a national chemical society, a national academy of science, or any other institution or association of institutions representative of national chemical interest.

Arranged in its original order (mainly chronological by date), this series contains IUPAC’s National Adhering Organizations files. The files in this series provide documentation of IUPAC’s dealings with its National Adhering Organizations. Boxes 188 and 189 concern IUPAC’s relations with various National Adhering Organizations throughout the world between 1968 and 1993. The files in Box 190 concern IUPAC’s relations with its National Adhering Organization in the United States, the National Research Council, between 1921 and 1944.

Correspondence makes up the bulk of the materials found in the National Adhering Organizations files. Small amounts of other miscellaneous materials are preserved here as well.

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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