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pays tribute to one of the discipline's most influential and innovative pioneers. Herbert Laitinen, David Hume, Joseph Jordan, and Stanley Bruckenstein reminisce about their days in Kolthoff s lab
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Happy 95th Birthday, Piet Kolthoff. On the occasion of his 95th
INSTRUMENTATION
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On the cover. Capillary electrophoresis permits fast and highly efficient separations of ionic species, separations of macromolecules important in analytical biotechnology, and development of small-volume separations-based sensors. Andrew G. Ewing, Ross A. Wallingford, and Teresa M. Olefirowicz of Penn State University describe instrumentation and recent advances in this field
BRIEFS
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NEWS
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Volt and ohm standards to change in 1990. • SUNY graduate students to sponsor symposium. • Nominations sought for 1990 EAS awards and Stephen Dal Nogare Award. • NSF funds the Center for Research on Parallel Computation
MEETINGS
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BOOKS
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Critical reviews. Books on metallobiochemistry and laboratory methods in vibrational spectroscopy are reviewed by Marian Stankovich and James A. de Haseth, respectively
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Instrumental analysis in art and history. Researchers at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation Analytical Laboratory, the Canadian Conservation Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania's Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology are using modern analytical techniques to probe museum objects such as ceramics, paintings, paper artifacts, and ancient bones and teeth
NEW PRODUCTS & MANUFACTURERS' LITERATURE
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AUTHOR INDEX
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