News Appoints Five New Advisory Board Members ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Donald D. Bly
Georges
Guiochon
Five new members of the Advisory Board of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY have been chosen in accordance with the usual policy of yearly rotation. T h e new members are: Donald D. Bly, E.I. du Pont de^Nemours & Co.; Georges Guiochon, École Polytechnique; Bruce R. Kowalski, University of Washington; Robert A. Libby, T h e Procter & Gamble Co.; and Richard S. Nicholson, National Science Foundation. T h e members who are leaving the Board this year are: David Firestone, Food & Drug Administration; Philip F. Kane, Texas Instruments, Inc.; Barry L. Karger, Northeastern University; J. Jack Kirkland, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and Harry L. Pardue, P u r d u e University. T h e 10 members who will continue to serve on the Board are: L. S. Birks, Naval Research Laboratory; Peter Carr, University of Minnesota; Kurt F. J. Heinrich, National Bureau of Standards; Marvin Margoshes, Technicon Instruments Corp.; Robert S. McDonald, General Electric Co.; James W. Mitchell, Bell Laboratories; Royce W. Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Garry A. Rechnitz, University of Delaware; Walter Slavin, Perkin-Elmer Corp.; and John P. Walters, University of Wisconsin at Madison. The
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itorial Advisory Board was established in the 1940's to aid the editors; it meets formally once a year at the editorial offices in Washington, D.C. In addition, the Board provides guidance
Bruce R.
Kowalski
Robert A. Libby
and advice with regard to editorial policy and the peer review process throughout the year. Board members are an invaluable link between the editors and the readers of the JOURNAL. Brief biographical sketches of the new members follow: Donald D. Bly received the B.A. degree in 1958 from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. From Kenyon, Bly went to P u r d u e University, Lafayette, Ind., where he was awarded an M.S. degree in 1961, and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1962. He served as Eli Lilly Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1962-63, at Purdue. Dr. Bly was hired as a research chemist by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in 1963. In 1967 he was appointed section supervisor of the Physical and Analytical Division of the Central Research & Development Department at Du Pont, and in 1977 was promoted to head of the Spectroscopy Division. Professional activities include membership in the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Sigma Xi, and Phi Lambda Upsilon. Bly has served as chairman of the Analytical Topical Group of the Delaware Section of the ACS, and is coordinator for all topical groups. He presently serves as section chairman of two A S T M groups, is a member of the Standing Committee on Publications of A S T M , and is chairman of the subcommittee on special technical publications. He has authored about 15 original technical papers and has
Richard S.
Nicholson
recently coauthored a book entitled "Modern Size-Exclusion Liquid Chromatography." G e o r g e s Guiochon is professor of chemistry at the Université "Pierre et Marie Curie," Paris, and head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at École Polytechnique. He received his B.S. degree in engineering from École Polytechnique in 1953 and earned his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the University of Paris. In 1958 he joined the faculty at the École Polytechnique, where he served as associate professor until 1973. His research interests are in all areas of chromatography: gas and liquid, analytical and preparative, theoretical, applied, and instrumental. He has authored or coauthored some 300 publications, one book and two movies, and has trained 71 pre- and post-doctoral students. He is chairman of GAMS, the French Society for Analytical Chemistry, and a member of the American Chemical Society since 1959. Dr. Guiochon has received the Stephen Dal Nogare Award, the Tswett Medal, and the Silver Medal of the C N R S , the French Science Foundation. B r u c e R. Kowalski, professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, received a B.S. in mathematics and chemistry from Millikin University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1969. He performed research a t Shell Development Co., Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Colorado State University before moving to Seattle and the University
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News of Washington in 1973. Dr. Kowalski is the author of over 70 research papers and book chapters in analytical method development and the application of multivariate mathematical methods to improve the measurement process and extract useful chemical information from analytical measurements. In 1974 he cofounded the Chemometrics Society, dedicated to closing the gap between chemistry and a p plied mathematics and statistics. In 1977 he edited an ACS Symposium Series book entitled "Chemometrics: Theory and Application." He is presid e n t of Infometrix, Inc., a data analysis firm, and a consultant to the National Science Foundation. As a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Award, Kowalski will spend his sabbatical leave during the full calendar year of 1980 "studying mathematics at the universities and beer halls of Munich." Robert A. Libby served as chairman of the ACS Division of ANALYTICAL C H E M K S T R Y ' S ad hoc C o m m i t t e e
on Regulations in 1978-79, and contributed several J O U R N A L articles to the REGULATIONS column. He also served as the presiding officer at a symposium on the impact of regulations on the analytical community at the 1979 National ACS Meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. Libby has served on other committees of the Division of Analytical Chemistry, and is a member of the ACS Subcommittee on Environmental Analytical Chemistry. Libby has been with Procter & Gamble since 1965 and is currently associate director of t h e Corporate Technology Division at the Miami Valley Laboratories. His professional publications have been in the X-ray, photolysis, kinetic, and enzymic areas. Libby received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from P u r d u e in 1964. Richard S. N i c h o l s o n received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Iowa State University in 1960. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1963, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Wisconsin for an additional year. He joined the faculty of Michigan State University in 1964 as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1967. In 1970 he joined the National Science Foundation, where he has held positions as director of t h e chemical analysis program, director of the chemical instrumentation program, deputy director of the Chemistry Division, and special assistant to the N S F Director. Since 1977 he has been director of the Chemistry Division at NSF. Dr. Nicholson's research interests are in both theoretical and experimental electrochemistry and mass spectrometry.
New Regional Instrumentation Facilities Established T h e National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the establishment of eight new Regional Instrumentation Facilities, bringing to 14 the number of centers established under the program in the last two years. T h e six original centers were described in the August 1979 issue of A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y (pp
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959 A). T h e N S F Regional Instrumentation Facilities Program is conducted in response to the rapidly growing need for powerful and versatile instruments developed in accordance with recent scientific and technological advances. T h e grants are designed to improve the quality and scope of research conducted in the U.S. by making sophisticated instruments more broadly available and by taking advantage of the economies t h a t result from sharing such instruments. T h e eight new centers established are: • Arizona State University, high resolution electron microscopy. • California Institute of T e c h n o l o gy, high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance. • University of California, the San Francisco Laser Center. Principal investigators from both the University of California-Berkeley and Stanford will conduct research on combustion of metals and the radiation emitted from the process, as well as other topics. T h e center will also embrace a new concept, the laser lending library. • University of Illinois, high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance. This facility will provide measurements on both solids and liquids at the extreme limits of sensitivity and resolution. • Massachusetts Institute of T e c h nology, laser spectroscopy and dynamics. T h e facility will be capable of generating pulsed and continuous beams of laser radiation in a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It will be used, for example, to study how light waves are propagated in glass fibers and for a wide variety of measurements in chemistry, physics, biology, and biophysics. • Montana State University, surface science and submicron analysis. • University of Minnesota, surface analysis. Scientists in the fields of chemistry, metallurgy, surface physics, and chemical and materials engineering will be prime users of the facility. • Yale University, high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
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Donald E. Smith
Donald Smith Wins Chemical Instrumentation Award Donald E. Smith of Northwestern University is 1980 recipient of t h e Chemical Instrumentation Award, cosponsored by the Hamilton Co. of Reno, Nev., and the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. T h e purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage achievement in the origination or improvement of analytical instrumentation. T h e award consists of a plaque, $2000, and travel expenses for attending the Spring 1980 ACS National Meeting in Houston, Tex., at which the award will be formally presented. Former award winners are J o h n P. Walters (1979) and J. D. Winefordner (1978). Dr. Smith received a B.S. degree from Allegheny College in 1958, and earned M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1961) degrees from Columbia University. After graduation, Smith joined the faculty at Northwestern University in Evanston, 111., where he is currently a professor of chemistry. His research interests are in electrochemistry and chemical instrumentation. He has about 100 technical publications relating to theory and applications of DC and AC polarography, kinetics and mechanisms of electrode reactions in aprotic organic solvents, electrochemical instrumentation, and on-line computer applications to electrochemical and other chemical instrumentation. Smith was chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern from 1975 to 1977. Smith is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Phi
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13th International Symposium on Chromatography T h e 13th International Symposium on Chromatography is to be held in Cannes, France, 30 J u n e - 4 July, 1980. T h e scientific program will comprise discussion papers dealing with all areas of chromatography and related techniques, as well as several invited lectures. There will also be two poster sessions. Topics to be covered in the lectures include: analytical applica tions of chromatographic techniques in the fields of food, environment, geo chemistry, biochemistry and clinical chemistry, and essential oils, per fumes, flavors, and fragrances; prepar ative gas and liquid chromatography; thin layer chromatography; high effi ciency column chromatography; detec tors for chromatography; and multidi mensional chromatography. Lectures will be given in English. For further information contact Georges Guichon, Ecole Polytechni que, Rte de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
Call for Papers 12th Australian Spectroscopy Con ference Sydney, Australia. Aug. 25-29. Papers relating to t h e study of molecular and materials structure; biological, envi ronmental, and industrial processes; exploration of fundamental physical and chemical phenomena; and devel opment of experimental techniques and instrumentation are invited. In formation will be exchanged through plenary lectures, contributed papers from conference participants, and in s t r u m e n t exhibits. Abstracts must be submitted by May 30. Contact: Asso ciate Professor B. J. Orr, Organizing Secretary, 12th Australian Spectrosco py Conference, School of Chemistry, T h e University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1 Kensington N.S.W. Aus tralia 2033. 5th International Symposium on Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Co lumbus, Ohio. Oct. 7-9. Papers featur ing t h e analysis, chemistry, metabo lism, and carcinogenesis of polynu-
