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come out of the automated systems. It is the analytical chemist who must plan for procurement of ap propriate samples so that the num bers that spew forth from a con trolling computer will have real meaning. Thus, it is the analytical chemist who must be continually upgrading his understanding of the analytical measurement process to meet the ever-increasing demands. Do I see analytical chemistry as a fading discipline? Decidedly not! Rather, as I look at this field of analytical chemistry including as it does people who call themselves analytical chemists and many more who spend much of their time doing analytical chemistry, I find un paralleled opportunity!
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Circle No. 72 on Readers' Service Card 38 A • ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 42, NO. 7, JUNE 1970
W. Wayne Meinke is chief of the Analytical Chemistry Division in the Institute for Materials Research at the National Bureau of Stan dards. He is also chief of the NBS Office of Standard Reference Ma terials. Dr. Meinke received his A.B. degree in chemistry at Oberlin College in 1947 and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear chemistry from the Uni versity of California in Berkeley in I960. He served on the faculty in the department of chemistry at the University of Michigan from 1950 to 1963 when he joined the National Bureau of Standards. He is active in ACS and IUPAC affairs and is currently on the Advisory Board of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
Presented in these pages are the two talks which introduced the topic, "Analytical Chemistry—A Fading Discipline?" at a special symposium held during the Pitts burgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectros copy in Cleveland, Ohio, March 4, 1970
