Jean Gérard

Jean Gérard (1890-1956) was a French chemist and documentalist.

Life

Jean Gérard was born in 1890. He died in 1956.

Contributions

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) was founded in 1919 and headquartered in Paris in the Maison de la Chemie. [1]. From the start, the Maison de la Chimie project was led by the French, most conspicuously by Jean Gérard, general secretary of the Société de chimie industrielle and of the IUPAC. Gérard's contribution to a number of national and international committees, notably for scientific documentation, left an enduring legacy.

Gérard was a co-founder of the Union Française des Organismes de Documentation (UFOD). He also proposed a World Organisation of Universal Documentation which would rival the International Institute for Documentation led by Paul Otlet.

Offices

• President, International Confederation of Students.
• General Secretary, International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry.
• Secretary General, International Union of Chemistry (Secretary General).
• Director, International Chemistry Office housed in the Maison de la Chemie in Paris. [2].
• Co-founder, Union Française des Organismes de Documentation (UFOD).

Further reading

• Rayward, W. Boyd. The Universe of Information: The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organisation. FID 520. Moscow: VINITI for FID. [3]
• Fauque, D. M. E. "French Chemists and the International Reorganisation of Chemistry after World War I." Ambix 58, no 2 (2011): 116–135. [4]
• Wikidata [5]