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Books and Journals Division Director. D. H Michael Bowen Editorial Charles R . Bertsch Magazine and Production’ Bacil Guiley Research and Development. Seldon W. Terrant Circulation DeveioDment- Marion Gurfein Manuscript requirements are published in the January 1978 issue, page 189. Manuscripts for publication (4 copies) should be submitted to ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY at the ACS Washington address.
Our Golden AnniversaryI. The Formative Years The end of 1978 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Analytical E d i t i o n of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry as a separate publication. In this issue, we are publishing the first of a two-part series of papers presented at the Miami Beach ACS meeting under the title Analytical Chemistry, the Journal and the Science. With one dramatic exception, the changes in the journal have been gradual and almost imperceptible from one issue to the next. The exception, of course, is the change of name, and even this occurred informally in 1947 before becoming official in 1948. Far deeper than merely a change in title, the new format represented the development of a basically different publication, a magazine cum journal, which retains a unique character to this day. It is appropriate that the 50th Anniversary Symposium was held in honor of Laurence T. Hallett, who was the first person really trained as an analytical chemist to hold the editorship, and who did so much to mold the publication into its present form. A good deal of credit also goes to Walter J. Murphy, his predecessor, who in 1943 succeeded Harrison E. Howe as editor of the parent publication, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. As a chemist who had turned journalist, Murphy recognized the enormous impact that war-time developments in instrumentation would be destined to exert on the field of analytical chemistry. He engaged Ralph H. Muller, then Professor of Chemistry at New York University, as a contributing editor in instrumentation, as well as Hallett, then a t General Aniline and Film, as a part-time associate editor. Murphy and Hallett, together with academic and industrial advisers, soon began discussions that culminated in the establishment of Analytical Chemistry essentially in its present form. It was recognized that appropriate advertising matter would not only be a welcome source of revenue, but would also serve a professional function in providing technical information about new commercial developments in instrumentation. The magazine section could provide popular and technical features not normally carried in a primary research journal. Hallett, from the first, insisted upon a strict segregation of research articles from magazine features. He broadened the mission of the research section to encourage fundamental as well as procedure-oriented articles. He built up an editorial staff with training and experience in analytical chemistry, and established a rigorous peer review procedure for contributed papers. The groundwork was thus laid by the late 1940’s for an evolutionary process that continues to this day.
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