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Chemistry International Vol. 21, No. 4 July 1999 40th IUPAC Council Meeting   Free University, Berlin, Germany, 13-14 August 1999 Election of Officers and Bureau Members: Bureau President Vice President Past-President Secretary General Treasurer—Vacancy Bureau—Four Vacancies (Minimum) ..Prof. S. Chandrasekaran ..Prof. Pavel Kratochvil ..Prof. G. Jeffrey Leigh .. Prof. Nicole J. Moreau ..Prof. Oleg M. Nefedov ..Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki ..Prof. Gerhard M. Schneider ..Prof. Pieter S. Steyn Prof. Pavel Kratochvil (Czech Republic) Prof. Pavel Kratochvil Prof. Pavel Kratochvil was born in Prague in 1930. He is a chief research fellow at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, one of the major institutes devoted to basic research in polymer science worldwide. From 1990 to 1998, he served two four-year terms as the Institute's director. He is also a professor of macromolecular chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. In 1953, he became a Master of Science in chemical engineering at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. Until 1957, he was a lecturer on physico- chemical principles of technological processes at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Pardubice. In 1957, Prof. Kratochvil joined the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the then Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he has remained. In 1960, he obtained his Ph.D. and in 1968 a D.Sc., both from the Academy. His main field of activity is the physical chemistry of polymers, particularly the characterization and determination of molecular parameters of polymers and copolymers, and light scattering from polymer solutions. Prof. Kratochvil is the author of more than 190 original communications in international journals, ten reviews, one monograph, and five contributions to monographs. He has presented about 250 invited lectures and communications at international scientific meetings and lectures at foreign universities and research institutions. Prof. Kratochvil is a Founding Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK; and a member of numerous boards, both national and international, including the Czech National Committee for UNESCO and five editorial boards of international technical journals. He is holder of the Czechoslovak National Prize for Science in 1970, the Prize of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1977, and of several other respected awards. He has spent his sabbatical leaves as a visiting scientist or visiting professor in Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, and the United States. Within IUPAC, Prof. Kratochvil started his activities as an observer in the Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature in 1977. He was elected a titular member of this Commission in 1979 and served as its chairman from 1985 to 1991. In the years from 1985 to 1995, he was a member of the Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature and Symbols. He became a member of the Macromolecular Division Committee in 1994. He has been closely involved in various IUPAC-sponsored meetings in Prague, including the International Symposia on Macromolecules in 1965 and 1992 (he was chairman of the 1992 Symposium) and most of the Prague Meetings on Macromolecules (Microsymposia and Discussion Conferences) over the last 32 years. He acted as the IUPAC official representative at about ten meetings. Prof. Kratochvil is currently serving his second term as the chairman of the Czech National Committee for Chemistry, the IUPAC National Adhering Organization of the Czech Republic.

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