The Chemical Society centenary celebrations

Abstract

As part of the centenary celebrations of the Chemical Society an exhibition illustrating the achievements of British chemistry during the past century and the part which chemistry plays to-day in everyday life was held at the Science Museum. The exhibition which opened in July 1947 was organized by The Chemical Society and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in two galleries which had been lent by the Science Museum. The Chemical Society prepared the first part of the exhibition which was an historical exhibition illustrative of the great advances that have taken place during the hundred years of the Society’s existence. How great are those advances will be noted when it is realized that, at the foundation of the Society, Dalton’s Atomic Theory was but thirty years old; the study of organic chemistry, as we know it to-day, was in its infancy. Fellows of the Society have figured prominently in the development of the science; and the Centenary was an opportunity to arrange a display under one roof of many historical exhibits never before seen together.