EUCMOS

EUCMOS is a European conference series that deals with topics of molecular spectroscopy . The abbreviation stands for European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy. It has taken place every two years in various European cities since 1951.

history

The European Molecular Spectroscopy Group, which was founded informally after World War II to bring together spectroscopists from all over Europe, met for the first time in 1947 in Constance. Reinhard Mecke , who, together with Alfred Kastler and J. Lecomte from France and Sir Harold Warris Thompson from England, developed the concept of a European conference on spectroscopy, was working at the time in Wallhausen , a small town on the shores of Lake Constance. The first official EUCMOS meeting took place in 1951, organized by Ernst Miescher in Basel. Since then, the conference has been held in different European cities every two years. This rhythm was interrupted twice. In 1971 there was no host for the conference and in 1991 the XX. EUCMOS in Zagreb are canceled due to the Yugoslav civil war. It was made up a year later in Austria (Vienna). Since then, the EUCMOS has always taken place in even years.

Over the years, EUCMOS has repeatedly won Nobel Prize winners or future Nobel Prize winners in the field of spectroscopy and molecular physics as plenary speakers. This begins in 1953 with Alfred Kastler in Paris (Nobel Prize 1966) and continues with Gerhard Herzberg in Leipzig in 1989 (Nobel Prize in 1971), Harold Kroto in Coimbra in 2000 (Nobel Prize in 1996) and Theodor W. Hänsch in Florence in 2010 (Nobel Prize in 2005).

EUCMOS meetings

Number	Year	Country	City	Organizer
0	1947	Germany	Constancy	Grump
I.	1951	Switzerland	Basel	Miescher
II	1953	France	Paris	Lecomte / Chancellor
III	1955	UK	Oxford	Thompson
IV	1957	Germany	Freiburg	Grump
V	1959	Italy	Bologna	Mangini
VI	1961	The Netherlands	Amsterdam	Katelaar
VII	1963	Hungary	Budapest	Kovacs
VIII	1965	Denmark	Copenhagen	Bak
IX	1967	Spain	Madrid	Morcillo
X	1969	Belgium	Liege	Roses
XI	1973	USSR	Tallinn	El'yashevich
XII	1975	France	Strasbourg	Lecomte
XIII	1977	Poland	Wroclaw	Ratajczak
XIV	1979	Germany	Frankfurt	Müller / Comes
XV	1981	UK	Norwich	Orville-Thomas
XVI	1983	Bulgaria	Sofia	Jordanov
XVII	1985	Spain	Madrid	Hidalgo
XVIII	1987	The Netherlands	Amsterdam	Oskam
XIX	1989	GDR	Dresden	Steger
XX *	1991	Croatia	Zagreb	Meic
XXI	1992	Austria	Vienna	Waiter
XXII	1994	Germany	eat	Schrade
XXIII	1996	Hungary	Balatonfüred	Mink
XXIV	1998	Czech Republic	Prague	Volka
XXV	2000	Portugal	Coimbra	Fausto
XXVI	2002	France	Lille	Turrel
XXVII	2004	Poland	Cracow	Handke / Ratajczak
XXVIII	2006	Turkey	Istanbul	Akiüz
XXIX	2008	Croatia	Opatia	Musić / Furić
XXX	2010	Italy	Florence	Schettino
XXXI	2012	Romania	Cluj-Napoca	Aştilean / Chiş / Cozar
XXXII	2014	Germany	Dusseldorf	Schmitt
XXXIII	2016	Hungary	Szeged	Palinko
XXXIV	2018	Portugal	Coimbra	Fausto
XXXV	2020	Finland	Jyväskylä	Lundell

* Not held because of the civil was in Yugoslavia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AJ Barnes J. Mol.Struct. 563-564 (2001)
2. ↑ History of EUCMOS. Retrieved September 29, 2018 .