Consensus versus Demarcation

Instead of the emphasis on methods and instruments, the focus shifted to modern chemical theories and fundamental research conveyed by academic teaching. The early history of the society explains the difficulties for the Societe Chimique de Belgique to appear both as a fully scientific society and as an attractive place for chemists working in both the industrial and the academic worlds to meet each other. Long after these first steps, one can hear the eall for more involvement from the industrials, and the incompatible yet parallel elaim to be, as any other foreign chemical society, a learned society. 

Bulletin = Bulletin de VAssociation Beige des Chimistes, 1887/1888 1903 and Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de Belgique, sequel to Bulletin de VAssociation Beige des Chimistes, 1904-1919. 

Deelstra, Hendrik (1995), La professionnalisation de la Chimie en Belgique, Sartonia 8, 85-101. 

Deelstra, Hendrik (1999), La contribution des pharmaciens au developpement de I Association Beige des Chimistes (1887-1906), Chimie Nouvelle 17, 3003-3007. 

Deelstra, Hendrik (2000), Contribution de I Association Beige de Chimistes (1887-1898) a la chimie alimentaire, L Actualite Chimique 45-46. 

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