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Coblentz Award Nominations Nominations are sought for the 1991 Coblentz Award, which is presented annually to an outstanding spectroscopist under age 36. T h e award carries a $1000 prize and a travel allowance. Nominations, which should include a description of accomplishments, a curriculum vitae, and supporting letters, should be sent to Keith Nelson, Departm e n t of Chemistry, Massachusetts I n s t i t u t e of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (617-253-1423). Deadline is July 1.
Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards Paul B o u m a n s , Alan Marshall, Royce Murray, and Dennis Peters are this year's winners of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry a n n u a l awards. T h e honorées will receive their awards at the fall 1990 ACS national meeting in Washington, DC. Brief biographical sketches of the awardees follow. P a u l B o u m a n s , chief scientist a t Philips Research Laboratories (Eindhoven, T h e Netherlands), will receive the Award in Spectrochemical Analysis sponsored by Per kin-Elmer. Boumans studied physics and chemistry at the University of Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. in 1961. He was a member of the university staff before joining Philips as a research scientist in 1968. Since 1972 he has served as an editor for Spectrochimica Acta Β and was appointed Editorin-Chief in 1979. Although completely deaf for the past 15 years, Boumans is very active in the development and advancement of emission spectroscopy methodology. He has studied dis charge characteristics, source optimization, detection pow er, selectivity, spectral interferences, line selection, highresolution spectroscopy, and spectral simulation. He is also the author of a classic book on fundamentals of plasmas, a two-volume wavelength table, a n d a two-volume work on I C P emission spectroscopy. Alan Marshall, the recipient of t h e Award in Chemical Instrumentation (sponsored by Dow Chemical Co.), re ceived a B.A. degree in chemistry from Northwestern University (1965) and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Stan ford University (1970). In 1969 Mar shall joined the faculty a t the Univer sity of British Columbia, and in 1980 he moved to the Ohio State Universi ty to serve as professor of chemistry a n d biochemistry as well as director of the campus Chemical I n s t r u m e n t Center. Over t h e years, his research interests have shifted from N M R spectroscopy to M S . He is best known for his devel opment (with M. B. Comisarow) of Fourier transform ion
cyclotron resonance M S , for which he won t h e 1988 ACS Akron Section Award and t h e 1988 OSU Distinguished Scholar Award. In 1989 he was elected a fellow of b o t h the American Physical Society a n d t h e American Association for the Advancement of Science. Marshall serves on t h e Advisory Board of A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y and is the N o r t h American Editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. R o y c e M u r r a y of the University of N o r t h Carolina, Chapel Hill, will re ceive the Award in Electrochemistry (sponsored by the Electrochemical In s t r u m e n t s Division of E G & G Prince ton Applied Research). M u r r a y received a B.S. degree from Birmingham S o u t h e r n College (1957) a n d a P h . D . in analytical chemistry from Northwestern University (1960) before joining t h e faculty at N o r t h Carolina. In 1980 he was appointed K e n a n Professor. His research interests include electroanalytical methods, molecular design of electrode surfaces, electrochemically reactive polymers, mass and electron t r a n s p o r t in thin films, electrocatalysis, macromolecular electronics and polymer film microstructures, solid-state voltammetry, and electrochemistry a t superconducting electrodes. M u r r a y has received n u m e r o u s accolades, including Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships, t h e 1987 N o r t h Caroli n a Distinguished Chemistry Award, the 1987 Carl Wagner Memorial Award, t h e 1988 Charles N . Reilley Award, and t h e 1989 Electrochemistry G r o u p Medal. D e n n i s P e t e r s will be honored as t h e recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching (cosponsored by t h e Divi sion a n d E. I. du P o n t de N e m o u r s & Co.). P e t e r s , H e r m a n T. Briscoe professor of chemistry at Indiana University, is also an associate chairman of t h e de p a r t m e n t , where he is responsible for chemical education. His research in terests lie in t h e field of electroanalytical chemistry, partic ularly mechanistic and synthetic organic electrochemistry. Peters's recent work has centered on the reduction of or ganic halides, t h e intramolecular reductive cyclization of acetylenic halides, the electrolytic interconversion of al iènes and alkynes, the electrochemistry of acyl halides and their derivatives, and t h e role of proton donors during the electrolysis of u n s a t u r a t e d hydrocarbons. Peters received a B.S. degree from t h e California Instit u t e of Technology (1958) and a P h . D . from H a r v a r d University (1962). H e has coauthored five u n d e r g r a d u a t e textbooks on analytical chemistry a n d is the recipient of two teaching awards from I n d i a n a University: t h e 1969 Ulysses G. Weatherly Award and the 1984 Distinguished Teaching Award in N a t u r a l a n d M a t h e m a t i c a l Sciences, as well as the 1988 Chemical Manufacturers Association National Catalyst Award for outstanding contributions to teaching. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 62, NO. 9, MAY 1, 1990 · 527 A
