INTRODUCING THE American Chemical Society Hungary Chapter

Presenters: Prof. András Guttman Prof. Attila E. Pavláth Prof. Tamás Kiss Prof. Ferenc Darvas Dr. György Dormán Ildikó Kovács László Lengyel

Introduction

András Guttman President

About the Chapter

• • 65 members Established in 2003 by Attila Pavlath’s encouragement, past president of ACS

Overview – I.

• • • Attila Pavlath: I nternational ACS chapters; first days of the Hungarian chapter; the original goals and his member recruitment efforts; Milestones in Chemistry initiative and exhibition series Tamás Kiss: programs of the Chapter, Building of connections with societies; International Year of Chemistry program; presence at conferences Ferenc Darvas: connections with ACS and with famous Hungarian scientists in the US; ACS-HU sponsored symposia dubbed as FROST

Overview – II.

• • • András Guttman: current programs of the Chapter; ACS HU Csaba Horvath Memorial Lectureship; plans for the following years György Dormán: tradition of chemical sciences in Hungary Ildikó Kovács and László Lengyel: contribution of young members and how the Chapter supports young chemists

Mission Statement

• Mission: – promote the dissemination of chemistry and related fields to facilitate interfacing between the public and academia/industry – provide forums to address challenges in chemistry and related fields – utilize the experience and networks of the chapter members coming from industry, academia, and regulatory bodies

Vision Statement

• Vision: – ACS-HC is a premier non-profit scientific society facilitating the interaction among industry and academic professionals in chemistry and related fields

HOW THE CHAPTER WAS BORN!

Attila E. Pavlath ACS PRESIDENT, 2001 ([email protected])

Milestones in Chemistry around Hungary Statue of Albert von Szent-Györgyi

TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES FROM THE CHEMIST’S VIEW

This Exhibition is a processed version of the gallery `Technological Milestones’, prepared by members of the American Chemical Society under the chairmanship of professor

Attila Pavlath

.

The Exhibition was made in 2007 at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary By

Nora Rideg

, undergraduate student, Supervised by

Veronika Nemeth

, assistant professor The Exhibition was sponsored by the

Hungarian Chemical Society (MKE)

and by the

American Chemical Society

Easily Portable 32-poster Display

• Amharic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Danish,Estonian, Finnish, French. German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian,

Macedonian, Norwegian. Polish, Portugues

e, Punjab, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,

Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

italic ones indicate almost finished status

Starting Activities

Tamás Kiss First President of ACS-HU

First Years

• • • Finding a place to the Chapter among other communities Make it legitim and public Introductory Section in the Annual Conference of the Hungarian Chemists

Chemical Landmark Project

• • • 1993-1995 Translation to Hungarian, make it visually more professional for pupils Collaboration with University of Szeged and the Hungarian Chemical Society → poster exhibition

•

1st National Conference on Chemistry

Poster award from IUPAC at the 1st National Conference on Chemistry in 2011 -> Attila Pavlath’s talk

International Activities

Ferenc Darvas Past Chairman of the ACS Hungary Chapter (2005 – 2010)

Goals

• • fostering the relationships between the ACS and the Hungarian scientific community turning the attention towards innovation and new emerging areas of chemistry

Dr. Tamara Nameroff Dr. E. Ann Nalley President of ACS

Invited lecturers

Prof. Jay Siegel Prof. Richard R. Schrock Dr. Yvonne C. Martin Prof. Barry Karger

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Hungarian and International Symposia

The Day of Chemistry – 2005 FROST (Frontiers in Organic Chemistry) Short Course series in Budapest – Enabling Chemistry Technologies – 2007 – Progress in Flow Chemistry - 2009 2007 2009

Csaba Horváth Memorial Lectureship

Prof. Barry Karger with András Guttman Lecture : New Approaches to Protein Structure Analysis for the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Next lectureship presentation: 2012

Lectures and Yearly Dinners

Dr. Yvonne C. Martin Computer Assisted Molecular Design: Lead Hopping with Confidence

Strategic Objectives

- Bring the right topics to the table – utilizing our unique knowledge of all fields in chemistry.

- Propagate forums to meet needs/challenges in chemistry and related fields.

- Nurturing scientists, teachers, students, user/technicians and technology.

- Providing opportunities for interaction between industry, students, regulatory, etc.

- Conduct efficient, professional, fiscally responsible operations.

- Develop communications strategies to enable exchange and dissemination of information via our website.

- Establish a culture that supports the professional growth of our members.

Financials

György Dormán Treasurer of the Chapter

George C. de Hevesy, (Stockholm) Nobel Laureate, 1943 George A. Olah (Univ. Southern California) Nobel Laureate, 1994 Pioneer of radiotracers

Hungarian born Nobel Laureates related to Chemistry

Discovery and application of carbocations Albert von Szent-Györgyi (Univ. Szeged, Nobel Laureate, in Physiology or Medicine, 1937) (later at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA) Discovery and isolation of Vitamine C

Other famous Hungarian chemists having achievements in the USA Prof. Csaba Horváth (Yale) (1930 – 2004) Inventor of high performance liquid chromatography, 1965 Gabor A. Somorjai (UC Berkeley) (1935–) „Father” of Surface chemistry

Ildikó Kovács

Young Scientists

László Lengyel

Hungary and Young Scientists – I.

Young Scientist Poster Award on FROST2 2009

Hungary and Young Scientists – II.

Lifelong Learning Hungary

Summary

• • • • • • Cultivate the good relationship between chemists in the US and Hungary, Help make ACS more known and to organize ACS courses, workshops, conferences in Hungary, Make the Society more recognized and popular among Hungarian chemists worldwide, Make the activity of ACS more known among Hungarian chemists and that of the Hungarian partner organization among Hungarian chemists living in the US, Represent the scientific interests of Hungarian chemists living temporarily in the US, Spread/distribute/translate ACS publications in Hungary.