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17.30-20.00
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Opening Ceremony
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chair: Peter J. T. Morris and Éva Vámos
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Words of welcome on behalf of the Hungarian Chemical Society by György Liptay
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Plenary lecture on ‘Cleaning Pictures: Chemists as Art Connoisseurs?’ by Geert Vanpaemel, Belgium
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Plenary lecture on ‘Prussian Blue, or the Pencil of Nature’ by Pierre László, France
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20.00
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Welcome Party
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Monday 3 August
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09.00-10.30
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Scientific sessions A1 & B1
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09.00-10.30
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Session A1: Eighteenth Century Chemistry and the Sciences of the Earth
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chair: Anders Lundgren
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Thomas Kaiserfeld, ‘The Bureaucrat as Anonymous Expert: Transformation
of Saltpetre Production in Sweden Circa 1800 and the Authority of
Chemistry in Practical Instructions’
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Isabel Malaquias, ‘A Second Edition of Cronstedt’s Mineralogy: Why Such an Enterprise?’
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General discussion
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09.00-10.30
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Session B1: Educating the Public
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chair: Gábor Palló
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Éva Vámos, ‘Chemistry and Chemical Industry Approaching the Public at Budapest International Fairs (1906-2000)’
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Gianmarco Ieluzzi and Francesca Turco, ‘Mo' Moplen: A Sociosemiotic
Study of the Introduction of Everyday Polypropylene Objects in Italy’
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Carme Domčnech Zaragoza and Josep M. Fernández-Novell, ‘Chemistry Through the Waves’
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General discussion
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee/tea break
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10.30-11.00
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Poster Session
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Isabel Cruz ‘CUF, “Companhia Uniăo Fabril” and the Outcome of the II World War: Chemical Production and New Technologies’
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Myungshin Kim, ‘A Literary Figuration of Alchemy in Korean Literature’
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Sandra Lopes, ‘Laboratory Hands and the Teaching of Chemistry, In the Polytechnic School of Lisbon (1837 – 1911)’
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Inés Pellon, ‘The Chemical Atomic Theory in some Spanish Books, Translated from European Textbooks of Chemistry’
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Joăo Rui Pita, Ana Leonor Pereira and Antonio M. Amorim da Costa,
‘Chemistry Applied to Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health – Work done
by Joaquim dos Santos e Silva (1842-1906) in Portugal’
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Tamás Révész, János Daru and János Inczédy, ‘Géza (Victor) Austerweil ,
an Outstanding Pioneer of Technical Chemistry in the XXth Century
(1882-1964)’
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Milada Sekyrková, ‘Idea Contribution of the Chemists to the National Technical Museum in Prague’
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11.00-12.30
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Scientific sessions A2 & B2
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11.00-12.30
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Session A2: Aspects of the Chemical Revolution
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chair: Isabel Malaquias
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Angela Bandineli, ‘Natural Philosophy and Experimental Chemistry in the
Second Half of the Eighteenth-Century: The Case of Lazzaro Spallanzani
(1729-1799)’
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Antonio Amorim da Costa, ‘Fermentation and Germination – A Scientific
Dispute in the Later Years of the Eighteenth Century between Vicente
Seabra and Avelar Brotero’
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General discussion
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11.00-12.30
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Session B2: The Public Image of Chemistry in the 20th and 21st Centuries
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chair: Pierre László
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Stephen Weininger, ‘Chemistry.Com: Why the Lay Public Embraces Chemistry and Alchemy While Shunning Chemicals’
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Tessa Avermaete and Tom Mortier, ‘Chemistry: A Challenge for Traditional Brewers?’
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Ágnes Kovács, ‘Gendered Elements in Chemical Thermodynamics and their Historical Origin’
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General discussion
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12.45-14.00
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Lunch
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14.15-15.45
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Scientific sessions A3 & B3
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14.15-15.45
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Session A3: Popularisation of Chemistry in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
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chair: Peter E. Childs
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Danielle Fauque, ‘The Chemists of the French Association for the
Advancement of Science (AFAS): Networks and the Promotion of Modern
Chemistry (1872-1924)’
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Maria Almeida, ‘Drugs in Ads and News: Educating People in the Nineteenth Century Press’
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Galina Krivosheina, ‘Chemistry and Chemists in Moscow Natural History Societies in the 19th Century’
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General discussion
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14.15-15.45
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Session B3: Chemistry and War
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chair: Peter J. T. Morris
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Jeffrey Johnson, ‘The First World War and the Shaping of Dual-Use
Chemical Technologies: The Case of German Chemicals and Explosives,
1914-1925’
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Olga Elina, ‘Private Estates and War Practices: The Development of Fertilizers in Russia’
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Marlene Burns, ‘The Development of Dutch Penicillin 1940-1950’
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General discussion
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15.45-16.00
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Coffee/tea break
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16.00-17.30
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Scientific sessions A4 & B4
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16.00-17.30
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Session A4: Industry and Chemical Expertise in Ireland
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chair: Soňa Štrbaňova
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Duncan Thorburn Burns, ‘Sir Charles Alexander Cameron (1830-1921):
Dublin’s Medical Superintendent, Executive Officer of Health, Public
Analyst, and Inspector of Explosives’
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Peter E. Childs, ‘Chemicals from Seaweed: An Early Chemical Industry in Ireland’
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General discussion
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16.00-17.30
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Session B4: History of Chemistry and Chemical Education
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chair: José Ramon Bertomeu-Sánchez
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John Oversby, ‘Introducing History and Philosophy of Chemistry into the School Curriculum’
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Alan Dronsfield and Peter J. T. Morris, ‘Using Practical Chemistry to
Introduce School Pupils to the History of Chemistry: A Case Study’
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Flora Paparou and Alexandra Karaliota, ‘“An Alchemy Lesson”- Teaching
Proposal for the Utilization of Literature in Science Teaching’
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General discussion
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18.00-19.00
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Visit to the Central Museum of Mining
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20.00
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Dinner
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Tuesday 4 August
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09.00-10.40
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Scientific sessions A5 & B5
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09.00-10.40
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Session A5: Periodic Table 1
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chair: Elena Zaitseva
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The First Responses to the Discovery of the Periodic Law
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Nathan Brooks and Masanori Kaji, ‘The Early Reception of Mendeleev’s
Periodic Law in Russia,’ with a brief introduction to the whole session
(by Kaji)
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Gisela Boeck, ‘About the Periodic Table in German Popular and School Chemistry Books at the End of the 19th Century’
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Soňa Štrbáňová, ‘The Role of the Czech Chemists in Reception and Dissemination of the Periodic System in Europe’
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Responses in European Periphery
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José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez and Rosa Muńoz Bello, ‘Chemical
Classifications, Textbooks and School Disciplines in Nineteenth-Century
Spain’
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Pieter Thyssen and Brigitte Van Tiggelen, ‘The Reception of Mendeleev’s System in Belgium’
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09.00-10.30
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Session B5: Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in Asia and Latin America
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chair: Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
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Hao Chang, ‘Fryer and Billequin: a Comparative Study on the Introduction of Western Chemistry into Nineteenth-century China’
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Mina Kleiche, ‘From the Unitary Process to the Engineering Process: Emergence of the Chemical Engineering Profession in Mexico’
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Diana Antonaz, ‘Industrial Pollution in Amazonia: a Study Case about the Aluminium Plants of Barcarena’
General discussion
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee/tea break
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10.50-12.30
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Scientific sessions A6 & B6
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10.50-12.30
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Session A6: Periodic Table 2
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chair: Ernst Homburg
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Responses in European Periphery in Scandinavian Countries
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Anders Lundgren, ‘The Reception of Mendeleev’s Periodic System In Sweden: A Non-Revolutionary Event’
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Helge Kragh, ‘The Reception and Use of the Periodic System in Denmark, 1870-1920’
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Annette Lykknes, ‘The Reception of the Periodic Table among Norwegian Chemists, c.1870-1930s’
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Response Beyond Europe
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Masanori Kaji, ‘Chemical Classification and the Response to the Periodic Law of Elements in Japan in the 19th Century’
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General discussion
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11.00-12.30
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Session B6: Between (Bio)Chemistry and Physics
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chair: Carsten Reinhardt
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Pierre Teissier, ‘The Case of High-Temperature Superconductors: When Chemists Work and Physicists Speak’
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Jurrie Reiding, ‘Does Fundamental Research Only Have Defenders and No Users? P. J. W. Debye in Fundamental and Applied Science’
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Heinrich Kahlert, ‘Isotope as Indicator: Radiation as Indicator for Biochemical Processes’
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General discussion
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12.30-14.00
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Lunch
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14.00-15.30
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Scientific sessions A7 & B7
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14.00-15.30
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Session A7: Aspects of Alchemy and Alchemy-related Chemistry
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chair: Brigitte Van Tiggelen
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Jennifer Rampling, ‘Ripley Revis’d: Reading Medieval Alchemy in Early Modern Europe’
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Ana Alfonso-Goldfarb, Márcia Ferraz and Silvia Waisse de Priven, ‘Chemical Remedies in the 18th Century: Mercury and Alkahest’
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Dóra Bobory, ‘Alchemy on the ‘Peripheries’ of Early Modern Europe. Avenues of Research’
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General discussion
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14.00-15.30
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Session B7: Specialised Branches of the Chemical Industry
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chair: Ernst Homburg
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Luigi Cerruti, ‘Not Only Goods: the Difficult Social Life of Biodegradable Plastics’
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Robert Rosner, ‘The Development of the Fine Chemical Industry after the Second World War’
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Elena Zaitseva and Galina Liubina, ‘G. N. Wyrouboff (1843-1913) in the
History of Industrial Application of Chemistry of Rare-earth Elements’
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General discussion
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15.30-16.00
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Coffee/tea break
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16.00-18.00
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General Meeting of the Working Party on History of Chemistry
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19.30
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Conference Dinner
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Wednesday 5 August
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Excursion
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09.00
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Departure, by coach, from Hotel Sopron to Várpalota (Chemistry Museum
of he Hungarian Museum for Technology and Transport) and Lake Balaton
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- Visit to the exhibitions of the Chemistry Museum
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- Lunch Visit to Tihany
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- Arrival to Budapest
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Scientific Program (final) 
The Programme of the 7th International Conference on History of Chemistry
