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THE Chemical Research Institute of Warsaw (Chemiczny Instytut Badawczy w Warszawie) was founded by Prof. Ignacy Moscicki, who is now President of Poland. Firm in his conviction that the independence of Poland would be restored and that the country would then need the services of such an institute, Prof. Moscicki took the first steps to realize this aim during the Great War, in 1916. He founded the Metan Company in Lwow, the object of which was to carry out chemical research for industry. The shareholders of the Metan Company voluntarily resigned from their material interests in this organization in 1922, and transformed it into the Chemical Research Institute Association, which pays out no dividends, in accordance with its by-laws, and expends all revenue and earnings on the prosecution of new research work. Having thus arisen without the help of the Government or of industry, the Institute was in 1925 transferred to Warsaw, where it has since 1927 occupied its own commodious, modern building, erected thanks to the donations of Poles, both at home and abroad. The building was officially declared open in 1928 by Prof. Moscicki, who had in the meantime been elected President of the Republic. The Institute contains a Department of Inorganic Industry, a Coal Research Department, an Analytical Department, an Alcohol Research Department, a Department of Rubber Synthesis, etc.
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The Chemical Research Institute, Warsaw. Nature 139, 519 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139519a0
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