On the 50th anniversary of the CSIC Centre for Research and Development in Barcelona Authors Àngel Messeguer Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (IQAC-CSIC) Keywords: CID (Centre for Research and Development), CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), chemistry. Abstract This is a review of the CID (Centre for Research and Development), the most emblematic CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) chemical research centre in Catalonia, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. In connection with this event, this paper presents a personal view of the various changes in the CID’s orientation and of the vicissitudes in the course of its development, leading up to its present status as a leading chemical research centre.Keywords: CID (Centre for Research and Development), CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), chemistry. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Àngel Messeguer, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (IQAC-CSIC) Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 16 (2017) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista de la Societat Catalana de Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Catalan Society of Chemistry (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista de la Societat Catalana de Química.Authors answer to Catalan Society of Chemistry for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Catalan Society of Chemistry declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.