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Eastern Analytical Symposium Announces Award Winners
McNair worked for Esso Research and Engineering, F&M Scientific, and Varian Aerograph before joining the faculty of VPI in 1968.
Five scientists will be honored at this year's Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), to be held September 24-29 at the New York Hilton Hotel in New York City.
K. L. Cheng, professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, will receive the B e n e d e t t i Pichler Memorial Award in Microchemistry. He has pioneered the use of E D T A to mask and demask metal species, introduced the reagents P A N (pyridylazonapthaol) and Thio-Michler's ketone, provided a theory of double-layer capacitance, developed the analytical uses of photoelectron spectroscopy, and recently worked with positron annihilation spectroscopy for chemical analysis. Cheng earned his B.S. degree from Northwestern College in China and obtained his M.S. degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1949 and 1951, respectively. He then worked for Commercial Solvents Corporation, the University of Connecticut, Westinghouse, Kelsey-Hayes Company, and RCA laboratories. In 1966 Cheng joined the University of Missouri faculty.
David Hercules, professor of chemistry a t t h e University of Pittsburgh, will receive the EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry. T h e award cites his contributions to the analytical chemistry of surfaces and solidstate MS. This research has employed a host of techniques, including X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Auger spectroscopy, secondary ion MS, ion-scattering spectroscopy, F T - I R spectroscopy, and laser microprobe M S . Hercules earned his B.S. degree from J u n i a t a College in 1954 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957. He held academic positions at Lehigh University, Juniata, M I T , and the University of Georgia before joining the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1976. EAS's New York Section will award the Applied Spectroscopy Medal to J a m e s Winefordner, University of Florida professor of chemistry, for his research contributions in atomic and molecular emission, absorption, and fluorescence in hot gases such as flames; molecular fluorescence and phosphorescence of species in the condensed phase; and the development of spectroscopic instrumentation. Winefordner received his B.S. and M.S. degrees and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1954, 1955, and 1958, respectively. Following another year at Illinois as a postdoctoral student, he joined the faculty at the University of Florida. This year's EAS Award in Chromatography will be given to Harold M c N a i r , professor of chemistry at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research has focused on the analysis of trace organics in water and soil; the development of automated chromatographic systems involving LC/LC, LC/GC, and L C / LC/GC; packed capillary LC and IC columns; and the manufacture and characterization of high-efficiency cross-linked GC and SFC columns. McNair obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Arizona in 1955 and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1957 and 1959, respectively. He spent a year at the Technical University Eindhoven in T h e Netherlands on a Fulbright fellowship. In the years t h a t followed,
T h e first EAS Award in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy will honor Karl Norris, generally recognized as the "father" of modern near-IR spectroscopy. A 1942 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, Norris has worked for Airplane and Marine Instrument Company, the University of Chicago, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he was appointed chief of the Instrumentation Research Laboratory in 1977. Norris is now retired.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Monitored
As part of its continuing program to monitor the Society's publications, the Society Committee on Publications (SCOP) has formed an ad hoc task force to monitor ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. Monitoring task forces are charged with investigating the intellectual and editorial health of the publications and determining if they adequately fill the needs to which they are addressed. Comments are invited and should be directed to the task force chair, Lockhart (Buck) Rogers (c/o Randall Wedin, Publications Division, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036). Other members of the task force who also may be contacted are Jeanette Grasselli, David Hercules, Mary Kaiser, Barry Karger, James McCloskey, Lawrence Pachla, W. D. Shults, Isiah Warner, R. Mark Wightman, Nicholas Winograd, Richard Zare, and Ned Heindel (SCOP representative).
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