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Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards James Jorgenson, Douglas Skoog, Garry Rechnitz, and Jean-Michel Mermet are this year's winners of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry awards. The honorées will receive their awards at the fall 1992 ACS national meeting in Washington, DC. Brief biographical sketches of the awardees follow. J a m e s J o r g e n s o n of the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill will be honored with the Award in Chemical Instrumentation, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company Foundation. Jorgenson received his B.S. degree from Northern Illinois University (1974) and his Ph.D. from Indiana University (1979). He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1979, and he was appointed professor in 1987. Jorgenson's research interests include capillary electrophoresis, microcolumn liquid chromatography, ultramicroscale analysis, and the design and implementation of new detectors for chromatography and electrophoresis. He received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1984) and the Tanner Award for Excellence in Teaching (1989). He served on the Advisory Board of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY from 1989 to 1991 and is currently the JOURNAL'S Associate Editor for chromatography and separations. Douglas Skoog, emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University, will receive the Award for Excellence in Teaching, cosponsored by the Division of Analytical Chemistry and E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. He received his B.S. degree from Oregon State University (1940) and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (1943). After four years as a research chemist and group leader at what is now Chevron Research, he joined the faculty of Stanford University as an assistant professor. In 1962 he was promoted to professor and became associate executive head of the chemistry department until his retirement in 1976. During his tenure at Stanford, Skoog"s research interests included thermodynamic studies of complex ions in aqueous solutions, analytical spectroscopy, organic reagents, and kinetics. Since his retirement, he has concentrated on revising and updating the three classic textbooks that bear his name. Skoog cofounded the Santa Clara Valley section of the ACS and served as its first president. He is an associate to the ACS Committee on Professional Training and was active in the National Science Foundation's Advisory Council on College Chemistry.
Garry Rechnitz, professor of chemistry and head of the Hawaii Biosensor Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, will receive the Award in Electrochemistry, sponsored by EG&G Princeton Applied Research. Rechnitz received his B.S. degree (1958) from the University of Michigan and his M.S. degree (1959) and Ph.D. (1961) from the University of Illinois. Before moving to Hawaii he was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1961—66), the State University of New York at Buffalo (1966-77), and the University of Delaware (1978-89). His research interests focus on biosensors for biomedicine and biotechnology. Rechnitz received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1966-72) and a fellowship to the Center for Advanced Study (1982-83). He served on the Advisory Board of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
from 1978 to 1980.
Jean-Michel Mermet of the University of Lyon in France will receive the Award in Spectrochemical Analysis, sponsored by Perkin Elmer. Mermet received his graduate degree from the University of Strasbourg (1964), a diploma of the Chemistry School (1965), and his Ph.D. from the University of Lyon (1974). He worked at the National Institute for Applied Sciences of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) until 1980, when he moved to the Central Analytical Service of the CNRS. In 1985 he became the CNRS research director and was appointed director of the Laboratory of Analytical Sciences at the University of Lyon. His research interests include the fundamental and analytical aspects of the spectrochemistry of plasmas and lasers as well as instrument development.
Murray Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Royce W. Murray, Kenan Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Editor of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Murray was elected for his research in chemically modified electrodes, which he and his students developed in the mid-1970s. The academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams and others who chartered the learned society "to cultiANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 64, NO. 11, JUNE 1, 1992 · 615 A
