The January issue of Chemistry World includes a warning on impending shortages of certain elements.
The vote on the proposals is due in October, as reported in the July 2010 edition of Chemistry World, published by The Royal Society of Chemistry.
The goals of the Year are to increase the public appreciation of chemistry in meeting world needs, to encourage interest in chemistry among young people, and to generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry.
And that is something all the chemistry in the world can't explain.
While they've been a staple of labs and chemistry books the world over for the better part of three decades, we've never quite figured out how the highly symmetrical bundles of carbon atoms form.
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Bernard Jaffe's 1957 tome, Chemistry Creates a New World, was typical of the admiring literature swallowed whole by schoolchildren.
The launch conference, which will be opened by the Director-General and Nicole Moreau, President of IUPAC, will bring together internationally renowned figures from the world of chemistry, including several Nobel Prize laureates.
Using marriage again as an example, is this how chemistry works in the real world?
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One of the key events of the day is the Young Leaders Forum, a group of young business students and scientists debating on the theme 'The world in 2050: our expectations from the life sciences, chemistry, industry and governments to build a better world by 2050'.
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"There is huge potential to get the world of bio-chemistry out to users via apps, " said Mr Ingawale.
Obamamania, and the strange intimacy and chemistry of politics in a globalised world, may reinforce Britain's hardening yen for novelty.
He's trying to drag the secretive world of drug-discovery chemistry into the computer age.
"Our chemistry skills are among the best in the world, " boasts G.
He has a wonderful sense of how to integrate chemistry and biology to bring products out into the world.
The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
The United States has won more Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and economics since World War II than any other country, by a wide margin (it has been less dominant in literature and peace, two awards that are much more broadly distributed among nations).
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Economics really just is a toolkit, just as physics or chemistry is, a toolkit that we can use to make sense of the world around us.
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Khan, 36, started Khan Academy in a closet at his home in Silicon Valley, but with backing from the likes of Bill Gates and venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann, has expanded into a 36-person company serving 10 million students around the world with free video talks on the Internet explaining everything from calculus to chemistry.
In the highly specialized world of scientific research, Khosla is a rare jack-of-all-trades, fluent in chemistry, genetics, engineering and microbiology.
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