News In 1928, he entered the University of Chicago. His 1931 Ph.D. thesis in atomic physics dealt with an experi mental elucidation of energy levels in Hg. Since then, Golay has been associ ated with the Signal Corps Laborato ries in New Jersey, the Philco Corp., and the Perkin-Elmer Corp. Since 1963, he has been a senior scientist with Perkin-Elmer. Golay is being honored for his con tributions to gas chromatography. His development of open tubular columns (capillary columns) is acknowledged as the greatest technical advance in gas chromatography (GC) since the in troduction of the basic technique itself around 1940. T h e idea for the open tubular col umn first came to Golay in 1956, when mathematical models he developed suggested t h a t a small diameter tube coated with a uniform thin film of sta tionary phase could overcome some of the drawbacks of the conventional packed column. Since the first demon stration of the practicality of the idea by Golay at a symposium in Amster dam in 1958, the capillary column has revolutionized gas chromatography.
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Combining capillary column GC with mass spectrometers has made it possi ble to separate and identify compo nents in highly complex organic and biological samples. In addition to his contributions to gas chromatography, Golay has been prominent in a number of other areas. He conceived the idea for the pellicu lar support, now so popular in liquid chromatography. His pneumatic in frared (IR) detector, initially devel oped to detect aircraft by emitted in frared radiation, was widely used in infrared spectrometers because of its unique high sensitivity for long wave length IR radiation. He also developed a multislit IR spectrometer. A 1964 paper by Golay and his col league Abraham Savitzky at PerkinElmer Corp., on smoothing and differ entiation of data by simplified least squares procedures {Anal. Chem., 1964, 36, 1627-39), is one of the most frequently cited references in analyti cal chemistry. In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), he developed coils to improve the homogeneity of the imposed mag netic field, and in information theory he developed a number of codes and
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sequences, some of which bear his name. In pattern recognition, he con ceived and developed a system that is now applied to the computerized counting of red and white blood cells. And Golay has inventions in radio communications and acoustics to his credit as well. T h e 78-year-old scientist now lives in Switzerland with his family, but maintains an association with PerkinElmer. T h e Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Tech nology will be presented to Philip W. West in recognition of his innovative research in water chemistry, air quali ty studies, and industrial hygiene. This is not the first ACS Award West has won—he received the Ana lytical Chemistry (Fisher) Award in 1974. West is a graduate of the University of North Dakota, and earned his Ph.D. at the State University of Iowa. He worked for the North Dakota Geo logical Survey, the Iowa State Depart m e n t of Health, and the Economics Laboratory in St. Paul before joining the faculty at Louisiana State Univer-
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News sity in 1940. Since 1953, West has been Boyd Professor of Chemistry a t LSU. In 1965 he was named to t h e Directorship of LSU's Environmental Sciences Institute as well. West has contributed to the study of water analysis and treatment for over 40 years, and has been actively engaged in air pollution research for over 25 years. He contributed to t h e development of the West-Gaeke method for t h e determination of SO2 in air, which quickly became a standard method worldwide. Recently, West and his staff introduced a method for the determination of sulfuric acid aerosol, a n d they developed a passive personal monitor for vinyl chloride that corresponds in size, weight, and convenience with a radiation dosimeter. West was also the first to use charcoal adsorption for the collection of organic pollutants for gas chromatographic analysis. T h e emphasis of his present research is on toxic and carcinogenic compounds in the environment. West has contributed over 200 articles, books, and reviews to the scientific literature. He has served on the editorial advi-
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T R Y , t h e Journal of Chemical Education, and t h e Microchemical Journal. He was editor of Analytica Chimica Acta for 19 years. West also served for four years as president of the Analytical Division of IUPAC. West was cofounder and former chairman of the board of Kem-Tech Laboratories, Inc., a company t h a t specializes in the evaluation of air and water quality. He is also cofounder and chairman of the board of WestPaine Laboratories, Inc., which is involved in industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, environmental toxicology, and air a n d water quality studies. Jeanette
Grasselli to be ANALYTICAL APPROACH Editor Jeanette G. Grasselli has accepted the contributing editorship of A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y ' S feature on
problem solving, THE ANALYTICAL A P P R O A C H . For the past year, Dr. Grasselli has been a member of the Analytical Approach Advisory Panel (see pp 1425-26 A, December 1979).
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Although t h e other members of t h e panel—Edward Dunlop, Robert Hofstader, and Wilbur (Dub) Shults—will continue in an advisory role, Grasselli now assumes overall responsibility for the solicitation and editing of articles for t h e feature, in conjunction with the editorial staff of t h e J O U R N A L . As manager of analytical services at the Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) Research
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