Reconciling Science and Foreign Relations in The Hague

Abstract From 18 to 25 August, IUPAC will convene in The Hague. This is not the first time. One of earliest conferences, 1928, also took place Dutch city. was a truly historic meeting, because it there that decisive steps were taken toward reintegration German, Austrian, and Hungarian chemists who had been banned from international science since First World War, as has earlier described by Jorrit Smit Danielle Fauque this magazine. An informal gathering following year, Hague’s beach resort Scheveningen, finalized process [1]. rifts war repaired; internationalism revived.