Advisory Board Appointments
readers the -15 authoritative 5-year review articles covering the fundamental advances in all important phases of analytical chemistry and the practical utiliHE adoption of a rotating basis of membership on the Advisory Board of AKALYTICAL CHEMISTRY zation of these advances in a wide variety of industrial fields. Our readers will have plenty of informative brings to a close the formal association of Beverly L. reading for the long winter evenings of the first t w o Clarke, Thomas R. Cunningham, and H. H. Willard months of 1949. with the board. And even though the days grow longer in March Your editor wishes to express his sincere thanks to and April, there will be considerable challenge to con- ’ these outstanding analysts for their long periods of tinue intensive reading habits, for the March issue will active and constructive service on the board and the feature the papers on ‘‘ Sucleonics and Analytical many important contributions which they individually Chemistry,” the first annual summer symposium coand collectively have made to the welfare and continued sponsored by the Division of Analytical and M c r o progress of the journal. We are greatly heartened by Chemistry and ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, and in April their expressions of continued interest and shall from ten papers on “Current Developments in the Applitime to time solicit their opinions and assistance. cation of Chemical Microscopy,” presented before the With great regret we report that G. E. F. Lundell division at St. Louis last September, will appear. has suggested that he be relieved from active service on the board for the one remaining year of his term of ofice. He has been a tower of strength and a source of great inspiration to your editor, to the staff, and to the other members of the Advisory Board. We are delighted to find that his health is steadily improving and ODERY chemical analysis has arrived! Fortune his intense interest in our problems continues, indeed, for December contains an article entitled “ Conif anything, has increased now that he does not carry trol by Invisible Light-Industry Discovers Spectrothe heavy day-by-day responsibilities at the Vational chemistry and Learns to Analyze Its Products in Bureau of Standards which he discharged in such a Record Time,” and the opening paragraph might well manner as to win great respect and admiration on the be thought of as a description of one of the fundamental part of his professional colleagues in this country and problems of analysts. in e\ery part of the world where the profession of “One of the most vexatious problems in a large steel analytical chemistry is practiced. mill, chemical plant, or oil refinery is how to keep &.‘ewelcome to the Advisory Board H. A. Laitinen of chemical control analyses flowing back to the plant as the University of Illinois, C. J. Rodden of the National fast as they are needed. As processes have speeded Bureau of Standards, J. W.Stillman of E. I. du Pont up, laboratory time has become more precious than de Semours dz Co., and Edward \Tichers of the Bureau ever before. . . . ” of Standards who will fill the unexpired term of Dr. And in the same issue is the story of Baird AssoLundell. We deeply appreciate the willingness of these ciates, Inc., Cambridge, hlass., which starts off: busy men to serve on the Advisory Board of this publica“The remarkable spectrochemical instruments of tion. It is largely because of such cooperation that Baird Associates, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., are speedthe journals of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY have ing up the work of the oil, chemical, and metallurgical reached their present state of pre-eminence in the scienindustries in three important ways .” tific world. The groundwork has been laid. Top management and executives are beginning to have their attention directed to the wonders of modern chemical analysis. Recognition may have been slow in coming, and the analyst may have hid his light under the proverbial E look forward with keen anticipation to the bushel, but industry and management are eagerly January and February issues of ANALYTICAL seeking new ideas in all directions. Modern analysis CHEMISTRY and can hardly wait to share with our is one of the most verdant fields.
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