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Tswett Chromatography Medals The M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medals for 1988 were awarded to Phyllis Brown, Fabrizio Bruner, and Tsuneo Okuyama at the 25th Anniversary International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography, held August 29 in Minneapolis, MN. The three scientists were recognized for their contributions to the development of chromatography. Phyllis Brown received a B.S. degree in chemistry from George Washington University (Washington, DC) and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1968 from Brown University (Providence, RI). After completing postdoctoral work at Brown, she later joined the faculty as an assistant research professor. In 1973 she became an assistant professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. In 1977 she was promoted to associate professor and in 1980 to full professor. In 1983 Brown was a visiting professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and she was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to return to Israel. Brown has been a pioneer in the application of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to biomedical research and has made outstanding contributions in the development of HPLC assays for biochemical research and the clinical laboratory. She is best known for her work in developing assays for nucleic acid constituents in biological samples. She was the first to use reversed-phase HPLC methods to determine concentrations of nucleotides and their bases in physiological fluids and to establish a range of normal values for these compounds in blood. Fabrizio Bruner received his doctorate in chemistry in 1960 from the University of Rome. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the university, he joined the analytical chemistry group of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Between 1966 and 1968 he was a research associate at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then returned to Italy and joined the Air Pollution Research Institute of the CNR. He became research director of the Institute in 1974. Currently he is a full professor at the University of Urbino and director of the university's Institute of Chemical Sciences. Bruner has been a pioneer in the development of graphitized carbon blacks as stationary phases for chromatography and in the study of the chemical and physical properties of absorbents. His major areas of interest are gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for environmental analysis. He is the author or coauthor of approximately 100 scientific papers.
Tsuneo Okuyama studied biochemistry at Osaka University in Japan and received his B.S. degree in 1953 and his Dr. Sci. degree in 1959. He joined the department of chemistry of Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1958 as an instructor, became an assistant professor in 1959, and was promoted to a full professor of biochemistry in 1973. From 1959 to 1961 he was a research associate at the Foundation of Experimental Biology in Worcester, MA. In 1971 he was a visiting professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. In 1972 he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany. In 1987 he was a visiting professor at the department of biotechnology of Tsinghua University in China. Okuyama has been a pioneer in the development of twodimensional electrophoresis and its applications for the analysis of plasma proteins. He has studied the amino acid sequence in a number of proteins and the use of isotachophoresis, isoelectric focusing, and high-resolution liquid chromatography in the analysis of proteins and peptides. He is the author or coauthor of more than 250 papers.
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chemistry The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the first award recipients of its new Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry Program. The program was created to attract outstanding young chemists to careers in research and teaching, to enhance their education, and to ease their entry into the field. Of the 20 scientists who have been selected as fellows, two were trained by analytical chemists. Jenny Brodbelt-Lustig received her doctorate from Purdue University under the direction of Graham Cooks. Her postdoctoral advisor will be Michael Bowers of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Curtis Monnig received his degree from Indiana University under the direction of Gary Hieftje. James Jorgenson of the University of North Carolina will be his postdoctoral advisor. The awards include a $26,000 annual stipend, a $4000 annual allowance for research-related expenses, and a $2000 institutional allowance. Following the one- or twoyear term of each fellowship, up to $32,000 will be made available from the NSF for one-year matching grants to fellows who accept tenure-track positions at U.S. colleges and universities. The NSF will match funds provided by universities on a one-to-two basis. The program will continue in 1989, and applicants who complete their doctoral requirements between June 1, 1988, and September 30, 1989, are eligible. The deadline for application is December 15, 1988. Application forms will be available after September 15 from Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chemistry, Chemistry Division, Room 340, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC 20550.
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