Michael Faraday award 1991

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Membership of EURACHEM is open to experts from government,

The Council of the Royal Society is advised on a suitable

industry and academe in EEC and EFTA countries. Liaison will be

recipient for the Award by COPUS

maintained with other organisations with an interest in chemical

derstanding of Science) a joint committee established by The Royal

measurement. Business meetings will be supplemented by technical

Society, The Royal Institution and the British Association for the Ad-

seminars and workshops. Communication with the wide analyti-

vancement of Science. Members of the Council of the Royal Society

cal community will be aided by the publication of news in the chemical

and members of COPUS eligible for the Award.

literature. For further

Nominees should be practising, active scientists [although retired

International has expanded its cluster of scientific and technical

makerstraat 97, P.O. Box 654, 2600 AR Delft, The Netherlands; or Dr. B. King, LGC, Queens Road, Ted-

former scientists are eligible). Teams would not normally be considered, except where each member has made an individual and clearly

new bibliographic, numeric and factual databases covering the field

dington, U.K.

identifiable contribution, nor would a scientist whose contribu-

science.

tion was essentially a single item (e.g., a lecture or book) however often it were delivered. The Award is not normally made to those con-

MARPAT: an innovative way to search chemical patents

sidered to be professional communicators, i.e., primarily employed to

With

communicate science to the public. Nominations for the 1991

kush PATents), STN offers its users

information,

tact: Dr. R. Kaarls,

con-

NMI, Schoen-

Middlesex

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Michael Faraday Award 1991

T

he Michael Faraday Award is

made annually by the Council of the Royal Society to encourage scientists to promote the public understanding of science. It

(the Committee

on the Public Un-

New databases on STN International ince

are not

Award are now invited and should be made on forms which are available from MS J.A. Nelson, The Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London, SWlY 5AG. The closing date is 31 March 1991.

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1 October 1990 the international online service STN

databases

to include a number

of

of patents, chemistry and materials

patent

the

addition

database

of its newest

MARPAT

(MAR

the possibility of searching for chemical patents by means of Markush structures. Until now, structure searching on STN to retrieve chemical patents has been limited to the substances found in the REGISTRY database. MARPAT contains more than 19,000 patent

is made to the scientist or scientists

citations and 55,000 Markush structures, and is updated biweekly

who, in the opinion of the Council

with some 475 new patent citations.

of the Royal

MARPAT

Society,

most to further,

have

done

in the U.K., the

public understanding of science. The Award consists of a silver gilt medal and a prize of El,000 and is presented by the President of the Royal

Society

at the Anniversary

includes

those

patents

published since 1 January 1988 that are cited in Cllemical Abstracts and contain Markush structures. The patent citations contain Markush structures (generic structures) which appear in patent

Meeting. The recipient of the Award is invited to give a public

claims and in many disclosures, bibliographic information, detailed

lecture at the Society.

substance

and subject indexing

as