LÖ: Can you give us a bit of context in why CNIC and IUPAC felt this scheme was needed? NEH: The recommendations were published in Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1979, (see also ref for the complete 1978 Commission membership) Other CNIC members from that time period included Yves Jeannin (France), the CNIC Vice-Chairman at the time and later IUPAC President, the Titular members, Jeff Leigh (UK), a later President of Division II, Boris Myasoedov (USSR), and another Associate member, Ekkehardt Fluck (FRG), another President of Division II. Subsequently, it was endorsed by the entire commission that included as an Associate member, a fairly young Jan Reedijk (Netherlands), the present President of Division II, which assumed the responsibility for the naming of chemical elements from CNIC, when IUPAC terminated (almost) all IUPAC Commissions after the Brisbane General Assembly in 2001. The systematic element naming scheme was the brainchild of the late Joseph Chatt, who was the chairman of the Inorganic Nomenclature Commission (CNIC) at the time. Holden (NEH): That has an easy and uncontroversial answer. Lars Öhrström (LÖ): Let’s start at the beginning: Who came up with the three-letter symbols in the first place? Holden, who has background knowledge about the old Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (CNIC), the Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights (CIAAW), and the Inorganic Chemistry Division (Division II), where he still, at 80+, makes significant contributions? Who better to ask than the living memory of IUPAC, Norman E. ![]() In subsequent Wikipedia editing he found some rather derogatory remarks concerning IUPAC and these systematic names, both in the main text and on the discussion pages, and started to wonder if these names and symbols really were so “silly” and “ignored”, as implied? Later, and much to his surprise, he found himself directly involved in approving names and symbols of new elements as National Representative in the IUPAC Division of Inorganic Chemistry in 2009.
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