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Appoints Five New Advisory Board Members
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
L. S. Birks
Robert S.
Walter T h e rotation policy followed for the Advisory Board of A N A L Y T I C A L
CHEMISTRY brings five new members to the 15-member board. T h e new members are L. S. Birks, Naval Research Laboratory; Robert S. McDonald, General Electric Co.; Royce W. Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Walter Slavin, PerkinElmer Corp.; and J o h n P . Walters, University of Wisconsin-Madison. T h e members who are leaving the board this year are Donald H. Anderson, Eastman Kodak Co.; Velmer A. Fassel, Iowa State University; Lynn L. Lewis, General Motors; Harry B. Mark, Jr., University of Cincinnati; and Wilbur D. Shults, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Slavin
Royce W. Murray
McDonald
John P. Walters
T h e 10 members who will continue to serve on the board are Peter Carr, University of Minnesota; David Firestone, Food and Drug Administration; Kurt F. J. Heinrich, National Bureau of Standards; Philip F. Kane, Texas Instruments, Inc.; Barry L. Karger, Northeastern University; J. Jack Kirkland, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; Marvin Margoshes, Technicon Instruments Corp.; James W. Mitchell, Bell Laboratories; Harry L. Pardue, Purdue University; and Garry A. Rechnitz, University of Delaware. T h e Editorial Advisory Board, which was established in t h e 1940's to aid the editors, meets formally once a year a t the editorial offices in Washington, D.C. However, special consul-
tations and informal contacts a t scientific meetings also provide valuable suggestions on policies and publication programs of the JOURNAL. P a s t Advisory Board members as well as current members provide help to the editors when special questions and policies come up. Members of the board are a valuable link between t h e editors and t h e readers. Brief biographical sketches of the new members follow. L. S. Birks has BS and MS degrees in physics from the University of Illinois and University of Maryland, b u t much of his work and interests have been in the area of chemical analysis using x-ray spectrometry. In particu-
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lar, he has been concerned with instrumental development, spectrometer-crystal optics, and mathematical methods for data interpretation. At the Naval Research Laboratory, he heads the X-Ray Optics Branch, which is responsible for X-ray spectroscopy of hot plasmas, solid-state band-structure theory, and X-ray diffraction from defect crystals, as well as work in X-ray spectrochemical analysis. Mr. Birks is author and/or editor of several books on X-ray analysis and many journal articles including the biennial reviews for ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (1972-76). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Spectrochimica Acta B, the Analyst, and Applied Spectroscopy. He is the past chairman of IUPAC Commission V.4 on Spectrochemical and Other Optical Procedures for Analysis. His professional society activities include the Washington Academy of Science (fellow), the American Physical Society, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the Electron Microscopy Society of America, the Microbeam Analysis Society (past president), and Sigma Xi.
Robert S. McDonald is a member of the Chemical and Structural Analysis Branch at the Corporate Research and Development Center of the General Electric Co. in Schenectady, NY. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1941 and received a PhD degree in physical chemistry from MIT in 1952. From 1942 to 1946 he was at the Stamford Research Laboratories of the American Cyanamid Co., where he was associated with development of the prototype of the Perkin-Elmer Model 12 infrared spectrometer. Dr. McDonald was a research associate at the MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory from 1946 to 1951. He joined General Electric in 1951 and has been involved in infrared analytical service up to the present. His research interests have included the study of surface functional groups and point defects in solids by infrared spectrometry. In addition to infrared spectrometry, his present interests include computer processing of spectral data, and use of computers in information retrieval. For some years he has prepared the biennial Review of Infrared Spectrometry for ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. A present member of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, the Coblentz Society, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, he has also been a member of the Board of Governors of the Coblentz Society. Dr. McDonald is a member of the executive committee of ASTM
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Committee E13, chairman of an ASTM Task Group on "Recommended Practice for Exchanging Spectroscopic Data in Computer Readable Form," and a member of the IUPAC Subcommission 1.5.2 on Storage and Retrieval of Spectroscopic Data. Royce W. Murray, professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received his BS degree from Birmingham Southern College in 1957 and PhD in analytical chemistry from Northwestern University in 1960. He has served as acting chairman, vice-chairman, and presently director of undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Murray is author or coauthor of about 70 research papers and chapters in the areas of his research interests, which include electroanalytical chemistry, electrochemical reactions, chemically modified surfaces, and surface analysis. A member of ACS and the Division of Analytical Chemistry, he presently serves as alternate counselor for the Division. He has been the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan and the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science research fellowships; has served on numerous boards and panels including the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Chemistry, the North Carolina Energy Institute Board, and the ACS Graduate Examinations Committee; and organized the 1978 Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry and the 1974 National Energy Workshop on Electrochemistry. In 1971 he was on leave from the University of North Carolina as program director for chemical analysis at the National Science Foundation. Walter Slavin, a graduate of the University of Maryland in physics and math in 1949, has spent all of his career in the development and application of instrumentation for chemistry and physics. Leading Perkin-Elmer's efforts in the field of atomic absorption spectroscopy, he has contributed extensively to the development of atomic absorption applications. His book, "Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy," John Wiley and Sons, Interscience, is now in its second printing. Mr. Slavin has published widely in instrumentation and applications of fluorescence spectroscopy and far UV spectroscopy. He has led Perkin-Elmer's effort to develop instrumentation for automated kinetic enzyme assay, and now heads an analytical chemistry group at Perkin-Elmer in developing instrumental improvements and applications in atomic
News spectroscopy, liquid and gas chromatography, and fluorescence. He is a member of the Optical Society of America, past president of the Southwest Connecticut Section of the OSA, and a member of the American Association of Clinical Chemists and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. John P. Walters is professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received the BS in chemistry, with distinction, from Purdue University in 1960, and the
PhD in analytical chemistry, under the direction of Professor Howard V. Malmstadt, from the University of Illinois in 1964. After completing an additional year of postdoctoral teaching and research with Professor Malmstadt, he joined the chemistry faculty at Wisconsin as assistant professor in 1965 and became professor in 1972. His teaching has been in equilibrium chemistry and chemical analysis, chemical instrumentation, and technical communication at both graduate and undergraduate levels. His re-
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search is in optical (atomic) spectroscopy, emission spectrochemical analysis, and chemical instrumentation, and has been primarily concerned with the investigation and control of short-time reactions in spectrochemically useful electrical discharges. He is a member of AAAS, ACS, ASTM, IUPAC, OSA, and SAS, and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Spectrochimica Acta B. Dr. Walters is author or coauthor of 36 papers, 2 book chapters, 6 patents, and 64 invited and 33 contributed professional public lectures. He received a W. F. Meggers Award (1969), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1971-3), and the 1979 ACS Analytical Division Award in Chemical Instrumentation.
Call for Papers Eastern Analytical Symposium Hotel Americana, New York City. Oct 31-Nov. 2. The scientific program will include contributed papers on various aspects of analytical chemistry. Technical sessions will be held on the following topics: FT-IR, GC, LC, specialty chromatographies, separations theory, NMR, photoelectron spectroscopy, data searching & retrieval, automated analysis, forensic analysis, AA, MS, electrochemistry, computers in chemical analysis, computational techniques, and clinical chemistry. Send title and 200-word abstract, not later than May 1,1979, to John D. Johnson, Spectrogram Corp., 385 State St., North Haven, Conn. 06473. 14th International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography Lausanne, Switzerland. Sept. 24-28. The scope of the meeting will cover papers and informal discussion groups by researchers throughout the world in all fields of chromatography. In particular, new developments in gas, liquid, and high-performance thinlayer chromatography will be included. Authors desiring to present papers must submit a 500-word abstract by February 1,1979. The deadline for receipt of manuscripts of accepted papers is March 1,1979. Program and registration forms will be available in June. All correspondence concerning the symposium should be directed to A. Zlatkis, Chemistry Dept., University of Houston, Houston, Tex. 77004. 713-749-2623 6th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) Philadelphia, Pa. Sept. 16-20. Special
