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EDITORIAL
October 1963,Vol. 35, No. 11
ANALYTICAL C:HEMISTRY Director of Publications, ‘Qpplied Journals, ACS, Richard L. Kenyon Director of Business Operations, Applied Journala, A C S , Joseph H. Kmey Executive Assistant to the Director of Publications, Applied Journals, ACS, Rodney N. Hader Assistant to the Director of Publications for Editorial Development, .4pplied Journals, A C S , William Q . Hull Director of Editorial Research, Applied Journola, ACS, Robert F. Gould
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Editor, LAWRENCE T. HALLSIT
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Professors Move Away from Specialization to hear discussions of curriculum changes in general and the difficulties encountered by analytical chemists in adapting to-often it’s outright opposition to-change. It is encouraging, however, to hear a constructive note as analytical professors try to create new analytical courses to make analysis a more dynamic subject. The classical approach of the nineteen hundreds was modified by the emphasis on instruments. We are now in a further change where the emphasis is not on the role of instruments but on the use of diverse methods in the solution of analytical problems. Modern instruments in themselves and the role of the specialist are not as important as they were when instruments were constructed in the laboratory. This change has now been felt in the teaching of analytical chemistry. Professors of analytical chemistry must now try to master and conduct research in several fields. This emphasizes the use of various techniques in problem solving, and it is refreshing to report that professors of analytical chemistry are beginning to teach courses with this new concept in mind. Papers in several fields are now being submitted by professors who, up until recently, have limited their research to one narrow specialty. This trend, we feel, will do much to help analytical chemistry maintain its position as a major subject in our colleges and universities. It will also turn out graduates who are useful problem solvers rather than narrow specialists. WE
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