NEWS
1988 ACS Award Winners Four of the 1988 American Chemical Society Awards involve research activities in the field of analytical chemistry. • Fred E. Lytle, Purdue University, has been selected to receive the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry, sponsored by Fisher Scientific Company. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the science of pure or applied analytical chemistry carried out in the United States or Canada. • Milton L. Lee, Brigham Young University, has been selected to receive the ACS Award in Chromatography, sponsored by Supelco, Inc. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of chromatography. • Norman N. Li, Allied-Signal, Inc., will receive the ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology, sponsored by Rohm and Haas. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in fundamental or applied research directed toward separation science and technology. • Frank H. Field, Rockefeller University, will receive the Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry, sponsored by Extrel Corporation. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the development or application of mass spectrometry. All four awards will be presented in June 1988 at the 195th ACS Spring National Meeting in Toronto, Canada. Brief biographies of the awardees follow. Fred E. Lytle received a B.S. degree from Juniata College and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. He joined the faculty at Purdue University that same year and was promoted to associate professor in 1974 and to professor in 1979. In addition, he was head of the analytical chemistry division in Purdue's Department of Chemistry from 1979 to 1984. His research achievements include the development of time-resolved fluorometry, including advances in laser technology incidental to this problem, removal of fluorescence signals from Raman spectra and associated advances in photon-counting procedures, and advances in two-photon spectroscopy. Among the awards Lytle has received are the Merck Company Faculty Development Award, the Amoco Undergraduate Teaching Award (1985), and the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation (1986). He was voted outstanding teacher in the Purdue School of Science in 1979 and was appointed an Associate E d i t o r of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY in 1985.
Milton L. Lee is the H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry at Brigham Young University. He came to BYU in 1976 after receiving a B.A. from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1975. He became an associate professor in 1981, a professor in 1984, and the H. Tracy Hall Professor in 1986.
Lee is best known for his research in capillary gas and supercritical fluid chromatography and for the application of these techniques to the analysis of complex mixtures in environmental samples and coal-derived products. He is the author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications and is an editor for the Journal of High Resolution Chromatography and Chromatography Communications. He received the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award (BYU) in 1982 and the Tswett Chromatography Medal in 1984. Norman N. Li is the director of Separation Science and Technology for Allied-Signal Engineered Materials Research Center. Li received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from National Taiwan University, an M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Wayne State University, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1968. He is credited with the discovery and development of liquid membranes as a separation method. Li has authored approximately 100 scientific publications and holds numerous patents on crystallization; extraction; blood oxygenation; water treatment; and enzyme, liquid, and polymeric membranes. More than 30 of his patents deal with the invention and application of liquid surfactant membranes. Li is a past chairman of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division of the ACS and is a member of the National Research Council's Committees on Separation Science and Technology and Bioprocessing for the EnergyEfficient Production of Chemicals. Frank H. Field is a professor at Rockefeller University and director of the Rockefeller University Extended Range Mass Spectrometric Research Source. He earned a B.S. degree (1943), an M.A. degree (1944), and a Ph.D. (1948) in chemistry from Duke University. In 1970 he moved from Exxon to Rockefeller University to devote attention to biomedical applications of MS. His other areas of scientific expertise include chemical ionization and massive particle bombardment MS and reactions of gaseous ions. Chemical ionization MS was first discovered by Field and Burnaby Munson more than 20 years ago. Field was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (Leeds University) from 1963 to 1964 and president of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry from 1974 to 1976.
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