Chemistry Resources on the Internet

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Awards and Prizes

• Nobel Prizes in Chemistry
  http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/bib/nobel_chemie_e.html
  This site lists the names of the Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and the achievements for which they won the prize, from 1901 to 1997. In some cases, the list gives links to home pages devoted to the winner.

• Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  http://www.almaz.com/nobel/Chemistry.html
  This is an even better site, with a little biographical information on the winners, and more Web links, including an Alta Vista search on each chemist.

• {Awards Administered by the American Chemical Society}
  http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=awards\index.html
  This site lists the awards administered by the ACS, with descriptions of each, contact persons, and information on the nominating procedure.

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Professional Societies

• {ACSWeb from The American Chemical Society }
  http://www.acs.org/
  
  • ACS Technical Divisions
  • {ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry}
    http://www.analyticalsciences.org/
  • {ACS Division of Biochemical Technology}
    http://membership.acs.org/b/biochem/
  • {ACS Division of Biological Chemistry}
    http://www.biochemdivision.org/
  • {ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry}
    http://membership.acs.org/C/CARB/
  • {ACS Cellulose, Paper and Textile Division}
    http://membership.acs.org/C/CELL/
  • {ACS Division of Chemical Education}
    http://www.divched.org/
  • {ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety}
    http://membership.acs.org/c/chas/
  • {ACS Division of Chemical Information}
    http://www.acscinf.org/
  • ACS Division of Chemical Technicians
    http://members.aol.com/ACSDoCT/techhome.htm
  • ACS Division of Chemical Toxicology (probationary)
    http://web.mit.edu/toxms/www/dct.htm
  • {ACS Division of Chemistry and the Law}
    http://membership.acs.org/C/CHAL/
  • {ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry}
    http://membership.acs.org/C/COMP/
  • {ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry}
    http://www.envirofacs.org/
  • ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry
    http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/
  • {ACS Division of Geochemistry}
    http://membership.acs.org/G/GEOC/
  • {ACS Division of History of Chemistry}
    http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/HIST/
  • {ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry}
    http://membership.acs.org/I/IEC/
    • {Separation Science & Technology Subdivision}
      http://www.swissbiochem.unibe.ch/
  • {ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry}
    http://membership.acs.org/i/ichem/index.html
    • {Bioinorganic Chemistry Subdivision}
      http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/koch/biic.html
  • {ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry}
    http://www.acsmedchem.org/
  • ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry & Technology
    http://www.cofc.edu/~nuclear/
  • ACS Division of Organic Chemistry}
    http://www.chem.wayne.edu/acs-organic-division/
  • {ACS Division of Petroleum Chemistry}
    http://membership.acs.org/P/PETR/
  • {ACS Division of Physical Chemistry}
    http://hackberry.chem.trinity.edu/PHYS/
    • {Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision
      http://www.chem.missouri.edu/theory/
  • {ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc. }
    http://www.polyacs.org/
  • {ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering}
    http://membership.acs.org/P/PMSE/
  • ACS Rubber Division
    http://rubber.org/
  • {ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses}
    http://membership.acs.org/S/SCHB/
  • {ACS Local Sections Home Pages}
    http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=localsections\index.html
  • ACS Committees with separate Web sites
  • {ACS Women Chemists Committee}
    http://membership.acs.org/W/WCC/
  • {ACS Younger Chemists Committee}
    http://membership.acs.org/y/ycc/default.htm
• {Alpha Chi Sigma}
  http://www.alphachisigma.org/
  Alpha Chi Sigma is the professional fraternity/sorority for chemists and chemical engineers. The web site contains extensive information on the national organization, and links to the webpages of many of its chapters at various universities.
• {American Crystallographic Association}
  http://www.amercrystalassn.org/
• {American Peptide Society}
  http://www.ampepsoc.org/
• {American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}
  http://www.asbmb.org/
• {American Society for Mass Spectrometry}
  http://www.asms.org/
• AOAC International
  http://www.aoac.org/
  AOAC International is an association of scientists in the public and private sectors devoted to the validation of analytical chemical and microbiological methods and promotion of quality measurements in the analytical sciences.
• { Asociación Mexicana de Química Analítica}
  http://www.amqa.org.mx/
• {Asociación Mexicana de Química Inorgánica}
  http://latina.chem.cinvestav.mx/RLQ/mexico/amqi.html
• Asociación Nacional de Químicos de España (ANQUE)
  http://www.gui.uva.es/~polyfemo/index.html
• {Austrian Biochemical Society}
  http://www.at.embnet.org/bch/ogbm/welcome.htm
• The Biochemical Society (UK)
  http://www.biochemsoc.org.uk
• {Biochemical Society of the Republic of Korea}
  http://www.biochem.or.kr/
• Canadian Society for Chemistry (see also Chemical Institute of Canada below.)
  • {Analytical Chemistry Division}
    http://ftp.cheminst.ca/divisions/analytical/home.htm
  • {Environment Division}
    http://www.cheminst.ca/index.php?ci_id=2598&la_id=1
  • {Inorganic Chemistry Division}
    http://ftp.cheminst.ca/divisions/inorganic/index.htm
  • {Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division}
    http://msed.cheminst.ca/
  • {Organic Division}
    http://umanitoba.ca/chemistry/cscOrgDiv/
  • {Physical and Theoretical Division}
    http://www.chimiste.ca/divisions/physical/home.htm
  • {Surface Science Division}
    http://goliath.emt.inrs.ca/surfsci/index.html
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
  http://www.chemheritage.org
  The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), established by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), had its origins in 1982. CHF seeks to strengthen public understanding of the chemical sciences and technologies, increase the flow of the ablest students into the chemical sciences and chemical process industries, and instill in chemical scientists and engineers a greater pride in their heritage and their contributions to society.
• {Chemical Institute of Canada}
  http://www.cheminst.ca/
• {Chemical Society of Japan}
  http://wwwsoc.nacsis.ac.jp/csj/index-e.html
• Chemical Structure Association
  http://www.chem-structure.org
  The Chemical Structure Association (CSA) is an international organisation which aims to bring together people whose work involves the handling of information about chemical structures.
• {CODATA}
  http://www.codata.org/
  CODATA is the Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council of Scientific Unions (IUCN). It sets standards in many areas of science (see the Fundamental Physical Constants site listed above.)
• {Croatian Biochemical Society}
  http://mb1.pharma.hr/index.phtml
• {Danish Chemical Society}
  http://www.chemsoc.dk/
  • {Danish Society for Environmental Chemistry}
    http://www.dsfm.dk/
    This site is in Danish
• Electrochemical Society
  http://www.electrochem.org/
• {Electrochemical Society of South Africa}
  http://www.electrochemsa.co.za/
• {European Chemical Society}
  http://ecs.tu-bs.de/ecs
• {Federation of Asian Chemical Societies}
  http://ozchemnet.adfa.oz.au/FACS/
• {Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)}
  http://www.febs.org/s
• Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
  http://www.gdch.de/
  Note: This web site is in German only.
• {Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie}
  http://www.gbm-online.de/
  Note: This web site is in German only.
• {Hong Kong Chemical Society}
  http://www.enmpc.org.hk/~hkcs/
• {International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists}
  http://www.iacis.nl/
• {International Society of Electrochemistry}
  http://www.ise-online.org/
• {International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry}
  http://euch6f.chem.emory.edu/ishc.html
• {International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}
  http://www.iubmb.unibe.ch/
• International Union of Crystallography
  http://www.iucr.ac.uk/
• {International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)}
  http://www.iupac.org/
  IUPAC is the international union of chemical societies. It sets standards in many areas of chemistry, especially chemical nomenclature.
• {Iota Sigma Pi}
  http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/Faculty/sawrey/ISP/
  Iota Sigma Pi is the national honor society for women in chemistry.
• Korean Chemical Society
  http://www.kcsnet.or.kr/
  (Note: this link is frequently down.)
• {New Swiss Chemical Society}
  http://www.nscs.ch/
• {New Zealand Institute of Chemistry}
  http://www.nzic.org.nz/
• {Norwegian Chemical Society}
  http://dkg.no/NKS/
  Mostly in Norwegian.
• Patent Information Users Group
  http://piug.org
  The PIUG is an international organization of professionals in patent searching and information, with many in the areas of chemical and pharmaceutical patents.
• {The Protein Society}
  http://www.proteinsociety.org/
• Royal Australian Chemical Institute
  http://www.raci.org.au/
• {Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV)}
  http://www.chem.kuleuven.ac.be/jongkvcv/
  English version. Also available in Dutch.
• {Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV)}
  http://www.kncv.nl/
  In English . Also available in Dutch.
• Royal Society of Chemistry
  http://www.rsc.org/
  Divisions and subject groups with home pages not at the RSC site are listed below.
  • {RSC Faraday Division High Resolution Spectroscopy Group|
    http://www.rsc.org/lap/rsccom/dab/fara007.htm
  • {RSC Faraday Division Molecular Beams and Dynamics Group}
    http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/pt/mbdg/mbdg.htm
  • {RSC Faraday Division Theoretical Chemistry Group}
    http://www.tc.bham.ac.uk/~roy/TCG/TCG.html
  • {RSC Perkin Division Heterocycle Group}
    http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ishc/royal.html
  • {RSC Perkin Division Protein and Peptide Science Group}
    http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ppsg/
  • {Historical Chemistry Group}
    http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/rschg/
• Scholarly Societies Project -- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/chem_soc.html
  This site at the University of Waterloo has a broad general collection of scholarly societies. If you don't see the one you're looking for in this list, try this site.
• {Serbian Chemical Society}
  http://ihtmceh4.tmf.bg.ac.yu/HtDocs/SHD/SHD-home.htm
• Slovenian Biochemical Society
  http://bio.ijs.si/sbd.htm
• {Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular}
  http://sebbm.bq.ub.es/
  Available in Spanish and English.
• {Sociedad Química de México, A.C.}
  http://latina.chem.cinvestav.mx/RLQ/mexico/sqm97.html
  Note: This Web site is in Spanish.
• Sociedade Brasileira de Química
  http://www.sbq.org.br/
  This Web site is in Portuguese.
• {Società Chimia Italiana}
  http://www.soc.chim.it/
  This Web site is in Italian.
• Société Française de Chimie
  http://www.sfc.fr/
  This Web site is in French.
• {Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry}
  http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Arts/HST/SHAC/SHAC.htm
• Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia
  http://www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/PMF/Chemistry/sojuz.htm
• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
  http://www.setac.org/
• Society of Toxicology
  http://www.toxicology.org/
• {Svenska Kemistsamfundet} (Swedish Chemical Society)
  http://www.chemsoc.se/
  Most of the contents of this site are in Swedish. A partial English page is available.
• {Swedish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}
  http://orion.imm.ki.se/sfbm/sfbm.htm
• Swiss Chemical Society - see New Swiss Chemical Society above
• {Swiss Society for Biochemistry}
  http://www.swissbiochem.unibe.ch/

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Conferences, Meetings and Symposia

These are sites which have regularly have lists of significant chemical conferences. The level of detail in their information may vary.

• {American Chemical Society Meetings Page}
  http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings\index.html
  This site includes calendars of ACS national, regional and divisional meetings, as well as calls for papers for upcoming meetings, and exposition information for vendors.
• {Gordon Research Conferences}
  http://www.grc.uri.edu/grc_home.htm
  Gordon Research Conferences promote discussions and the free exchange of ideas at the research frontiers of the biological, chemical and physical sciences. Scientists with common professional interests come together for a full week of intense discussion and examination of the most advanced aspects of their field. These Conferences provide a valuable means of disseminating information and ideas in a way that cannot be achieved through the usual channels of communication - publications and presentations at large scientific meetings. This site includes a list of upcoming Gordon Conferences and an online registration form, as well as general information on the conferences.
• {Royal Society of Chemistry Conference Diary}
  http://www.rsc.org/lap/confs/confshome.htm
  This site contains lists of conferences and contact information for conferences worldwide for the next three years. It is subdivided by subject area (analytical, inorganic, materials, organic, physical.) Some listings, but not all, have links to conference home pages or e-mail contacts.
• {Conferences in Chemistry from NIU}
  http://hackberry.chem.trinity.edu/Conferences.html
  This excellent compilation from Northern Illinois University lists ACS National Meetings (often with more detail than the ACS web site!), Gordon Conferences, and other meetings grouped by subject.The list is keyword-searchable as well.
• {Warr & Co.'s 1998 Meetings List}
  http://www.warr.com/meet98.html
  Renowned chemical information specialist Wendy Warr maintains an annual list of upcoming meetings.

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