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The Royal Society of Chemistry's logo includes a benzene ring — a nod to Kekule's 1865 structural insight and the benzene-derived chemistry that British industry built upon. The RSC itself was formed in 1980, but the chemical societies it merged trace back to 1841.

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Aspirin — 125 years and still on the WHO essential medicines list.

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