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Murray’s quad The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC– CH), will name part of its new Physical Science Complex after Royce Murray, renowned analytical chemist and Editor of Analytical Chemistry. The major outdoor area will be called the Royce Murray Quadrangle, making it one of only three named outdoor plazas on the campus. In addition to his roles as scientist, teacher, and editor, Murray has led the planning of the $205 million complex, which will house five departments, including chemistry, and is currently under construction. Murray has been a member of the UNC–CH faculty since 1960.
Howard V. Malmstadt (1922–2003) Howard V. Malmstadt passed away on July 7, 2003, in Kona, Hawaii. He was 81 years old. Malmstadt was born in 1922 in Marionette, Wis., and earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1943. As an ensign in the U.S. Navy, he was chosen for an elite program to study electronics and the new technology called “radar” at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he served as a radar officer in the Pacific during World War II. Malmstadt earned his M.S. in chemistry in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1950 under Walter J. Blaedel and accepted a position at the University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign, in 1951. Malmstadt was a pioneer in automated titrations, null-point potentiometry, kinetic methods, timeresolved emission spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, automated atomic absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, automated centrifugal fast analyzers, and microcomputer-based analytical instrumentation. While at Illinois, Malmstadt was a major inspiration to many students, postdocs, and colleagues (Anal. Chem. 1988, 60, 87 A). “He was the single most influential person in my life,” stated Harry Pardue. At one time, more than 25 of his Ph.D. students and postdocs were in academia. Malmstadt and Chris Enke developed the first Electronics for Scientists course and published the first book in this area in 374 A
1963. Several hundred universities around the world taught courses based on their books. In his 2001 address at the Pittsburgh Conference, Larry Faulkner, president of the University of Texas, Austin, stated, “Howard Malmstadt was at least a decade ahead of others in understanding the great qualitative changes that could
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occur in analytical chemistry by taking advantage, first, of the advances in microelectronics and, later, by the new technology resting on microprocessors.” Malmstadt received the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) Award in Chemical Instrumentation (1963), the Donald P. Eckman Award of the Instrument Society of America (1970), the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry (1976), the ISCO Award (1980), the DAC’s J. Calvin Giddings Award (1984), the Anachem Award (1987), the Maurice F. Hasler Award of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (1995), and several other honors. For the past 25 years, he had been associated with the University of the Nations, a missions-oriented, international, nondenominational university that he co-founded in 1978. a —Stanley R. Crouch
