The society was founded of 118 Charter Members on 29 June 1919[1] on the initiative of Leon Marchlewski, Stanisław Bądzyński and Ignacy Mościcki, future President of Poland who was a chemist himself.

The initial aim of the organization was to bring together Polish chemists previously working under different partitions as well as from abroad.

[2] The Polish Chemical Society initiated a series of scientific conferences as well as founded Poland's first chemistry journal Roczniki Chemii.

[3] The statute states that one of the goals of the society is ‘‘the encouragement of progress of chemical science and propagation thereof among the public, as well as representation of the professional interests of chemists, both researchers and those industrially employed’’.

[1] Currently, the offices of the society are located in the 18th-century tenement building at Freta Street 16 in the historic city center of Warsaw.