INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CHEMISTRY

摘要

The present year has been proclaimed the International Year of Chemistry by the United Nations. The idea arose in 2006 at a meeting of the executive committee of IUPAC, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and the developed plan was endorsed by UNESCO. The unifying theme for the celebration is "Chemistry - our life, our future." This is precisely why the World Metrology Day 2011 had as its slogan "Chemical measurements for our life, our future." The messages of the Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (IBWM), Prof. M. Kiihne, and the Director of the International Bureau of Legal Metrology (BIML), Stephen Patoray were read to the Seventh Moscow International Forum May 17-19, 2011 and published in the mass media (see Measurement Techniques, No. 5 (2011)).