Société Chimique de France
The Société Chimique de France (SCF, until 2009 Société Française de Chimie ) is the French chemical society and the professional association of French chemists.
It was founded in 1857 by young Parisian chemists (Jacques Arnaudon, who was also first president, E. Collinet, Giuseppe Ubaldini) for the exchange of knowledge in a café and with the accession of well-known chemists in 1858 to an organization similar to the later Royal Society of Chemistry (then London Chemical Society). Jean-Baptiste Dumas became president in 1859 with Louis Pasteur and Auguste Cahours as vice-presidents.
They award several prizes such as the Lavoisier Medal , their highest award, the Grand prix Achille Le Bel, the Grand Prix Pierre Süe and the Grand prix Félix Trombe. They also award the Prix franco-allemand Georg Wittig et Victor Grignard with the Society of German Chemists , the Prix franco-espagnol Miguel Catalán Sañudo et Paul Sabatier with the Spanish Chemical Society, and the Prix franco-Italien with the Polish Chemical Society the Prix franco-polonais and the Prix franco-britannique with the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The SCF has published the Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France since 1858 (from previous journals that were edited by Charles Adolphe Wurtz ). In 1973 the magazine L'Actualité chimique was created, which is aimed at a larger audience.
In the course of time, several subdivisions emerged, first in 1958 for analytical chemistry, 1964 for organic, physical and inorganic chemistry (Chimie minérale) and 2006 for industrial chemistry. They have been holding conferences regularly since 1860.
Together with other European chemical societies, they belong to ChemPubSoc Europe and are involved in the publication of various specialist journals (published by Wiley-VCH): Chemistry - A European Journal , European Journal of Organic Chemistry , European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , ChemPhysChem , ChemBioChem , ChemMedChem and ChemSusChem . You are a member of the European association EuCheMS .