Coinciding with the centenary of the Award Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Marie Curie and the Centenary of the founding of the International Association of Chemical Societies , forerunner of the IUPAC, the UN General Assembly has declared 2011 as International Year chemistry with the aim of raising awareness the public about the contributions of science to human welfare.
Under the motto " Chemistry: our life, our future ' will develop a series of activities whose objectives are to highlight the achievements of chemistry and its contribution to human welfare, what will improve the social perception of chemistry, encouraging young people to study chemistry and create a climate of confidence and enthusiasm in the future (if creative) of chemical research.
Today most people know that chemistry is the science of the matter around us and the so-called transformed by chemical reactions. However, the chemistry is much more than this formal definition. Part of our everyday universe everything we are and everything around us is chemistry.
From January 27 an avalanche of events, conferences, schools, workshops and exhibitions with the common denominator of chemistry developed worldwide, with the main objective of holding this discipline and put it in the context that actually has its own right. That day will officially begin International Year of Chemistry with the opening ceremony in Paris, organized by UNESCO and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
In Spain the official launch ceremony will be in February at the headquarters of the CSIC in Madrid, one of the centers more and better chemistry developed in our country.
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