The ICREA Acadèmia award 2021 has recognized Prof. Eliseo Ruiz for excellence in research of magnetic and transport properties of inorganic molecular materials.
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The Société Chimique de France has delivered the 2012 National and Binational Awards in a ceremony that took place at the Université de Haute Alsace, in Mulhouse, on May 27, 2013. The event coincided with the centennial of the recognition of Mulhouse’s native Alfred Werner with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The awardees were Lahcène Ouahab and Philippe Sautet (Pierre Süe prize) Samir Zard (Achille-Joseph Le Bel prize) Klaus Müllen (French-German Georg Wittig prize) Santiago Alvarez (French-Spanish Catalan-Sabatier prize)
An Essay on the symbolism of arrows in chemistry has appeared in Angewadnte Chemie International Edition.In that paper Santiago Alvarez surveys the chronological milestones of the adoption of chemical equations in books and journals, and of the introduction of arrows to replace the equals sign. It also presents an analysis of a variety of other applications in the chemistry visual language and of possible parallelisms with arrows used in abstract art, notably by Paul Klee, whose painting «Abstract Trio» is shown to be inspired by Jean Perrin’s drawings reporting the observation of the Brownina motion.