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PITTCON AWARDS PRESENTED Preeminent achievements in analytical chemistry and spectroscopy are honored LINDA R. RABER, C&EN WASHINGTON
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the annual Pittsburgh Conference & Exhibition on Analytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy is t o recognize and h o n o r scientists w h o have made outstanding contributions to analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. T h e following awards were presented at Pittcon in Orlando, Fla. (See page 27 for C & E N ' s coverage of t h e conference.) Gary Horlick, professor of chemistry at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, received the 2 0 0 3 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh in recognition ofhis lifelong contributions to the development and characterization of new methods and systems for elemental analysis. Horlick has pioneered the application of linear image sensors (photodiode arrays) to atomic spectrochemical measurements, work that predated the commercial developments in this area by two decades. Horlick received a B.S. degree from the University of Alberta in 1965 and a Ph.D. degree in 1970 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He joined the department of chemistry at Alberta in 1969. His research interests are in the general area of analytical spectroscopy with emphasis on the development of new methods and systems for elemental analysis. Specific systems have been developed based on photodiode arrays and Fourier transform spectrometry, and new systems are now being developed based on acousto-optic tunable filters that could form the basis of an all-electronic spectrometer system. Horlick received the Meggars Award of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in I HTTP://WWW.CEN-ONLINE.ORG
1985 and the Fisher Scientific Lecture Award from the Chemical Institute of Canada in 1987. In 1989, he received the Lester W Strock Award of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990. In 1996, he received the Spectrochemical Analysis Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Jack L. Koenig, Donnell Institute Professor of the department of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, received the 2 0 0 3 Maurice F. Hasler Award recognizing his lifelong contributions in developing spectroscopic methods and instrumentation for polymers. Koenig is a leader in the application of infrared, Raman, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to the study of macromolecules and in the development of education in polymer science and engineering. The Hasler Award is presented biannually by t h e Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh and is sponsored by Thermo Electron Corp. It recognizes notable achievements in spectroscopy that have resulted in significant applications of broad utility Koenig received a B. A. degree in chemistry and mathematics from Yinkton College, Bismarck, N.D., in 1955, and an M.S. (1957) and Ph.D. (1959) in physical chemistry from the University of Nebraska. From 1959 to 1963, he was a research chemist at DuPont, where he began his work in the spectroscopy of polymers. In 1963, he moved to Case Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in polymer science. He has remained there since then, rising to Donnell Institute Professor in 1990. In 1985-86, he was a visiting professor at the University of Freiburg, in Germany Koenig's honors include the Pittsburgh
Spectroscopy Award (1984), the Edward W Morley Medal of the ACS Cleveland Section (1986), the Bomem-Michelson Award of the Coblentz Society (1993), and the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science (1997)- He was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2000. The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh presented the 2003 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award to George M. WhitesideSp Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Harvard University His research interests include materials science, biophysics, complexity, surface science, microfluidics, self-assembly micro- and nanotechnology, and cell-surface chemistry Born in Louisville, Ky, Whitesides received an A.B. degree from Harvard in 1960 and a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1964. He was a member of the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1982. He joined the department of chemistry of « Harvard in 1982. ] Honors received j by Whitesides in! elude the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1975), the Harrison Howe Award of the ACS Rochester Section (1979), the Remsen Award of the ACS Maryland Section (1983), an ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1989), the James Flack Norris Award of the ACS Northeastern Section (1994), the ACS Arthur C. Cope Award (1995), the Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyAward for Significant Technical Achievement (1996), the National Medal of Science (1998), the ACS Sierra Nevada Section's Distinguished Chemist Award (1999),the Wallac Oy Innovation Award in High Throughput Screening of the Society for Biomolecular Screening (1999), the Award for Excellence in Surface Science of the Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation (1999), and the Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society (2000). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the N e w a r k Academy of Science, a foreign fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, and an honorary fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India. C & E N / MARCH 31 , 2003
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AWARDS The 2003 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award symposium included presentation of the award followed by Whitesides' technical presentation titled "New Tools for Bioanalysis." Follow-up speakers included Nick Abbott, the University of Wisconsin; David R. Walt, Tufts University; Milan Mrksich, the University of Chicago; and Chris Chen,Johns Hopkins School ofMedicine. The 2003 Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award was presented to Owe Orwar of the department ofphysical chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. This award recognizes Orwar's substantial and significant achievements in the creation of nanoscale analytical systems and their application to scientific problems in bioanalytical and biophysical chemistry A symposium was held to celebrate Orwar's contributions to the study of the dynamic properties of nanoscale systems at the level of single nanoparticles, single molecules, and single chemical bonds. An understanding of chemical dynamics on this scale is crucial to furthering the objectives of nanoscience and nanotechnology, which can be described as the construction of devices one atom or one molecule at a time. Nanoscience and nanotechnology represent the future of electronic and biomedical devices. During his award address, Orwar described the construction of nanoscale chemical laboratories using lipid bilayer networks conjugated with nanotubes that are 50-150 nm in radius. He also discussed the integration of microfluidic systems with cell-based biosensors and their applications in high-throughput screening of ion channeling and interactions. Paul S. Weiss, Pennsylvania State University; Evan Evans, Boston University; Daniel Chiu, University of Washington; and Xiaoling Sunney Xie, Harvard University, made presentations at the award symposium. Richard L. McCreery, Dow Professor of Chemistry at O h i o State University (OSU), received the Charles N . Reilly Award of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry McCreery's research has involved spectroscopic probes of electrochemical processes. Applications have included electroanalysis, electrochemical Uk
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corrosion, and anticorrosion coatings for aircraft alloys. McCreery received a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1970 from the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D degree in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1974, working on neurochemical applications of voltammetry. He then joined the chemistry faculty at OSU, where he has remained. McCreery has made important contributions to a number of areas in electroanalytical chemistry and analytical Raman spectroscopy A main research emphasis, over the years, has been the development of spectroscopic techniques to probe electrochemical processes, with the goal of relating electrode surface structure to electrochemical reactivity. Of particular interest have been carbon electrode surfaces, for which Raman spectroscopy can provide surface and bulk structural information. Much of the current understanding in the field of carbon electrochemistry has resulted from the thorough and innovative work by the McCreery group. An additional application of surface spectroscopy has been a multidisciplinary project on anticorrosion coatings for aircraft alloys, in which the surface chemistry of chromate species is an essential component ofunderstanding the effectiveness of commonly used coatings. McCreery's current research is focused on molecular electronics, in which modified carbon surfaces are integrated into electronic circuits. Monolayers of molecules covalently attached to the electrode surfaces serve electronic functions such as memory, photoreception, and switching. He has received several notable awards, including a Sloan Fellowship (1981), an OSU Distinguished Research Award (1982), the Rappoport Award from the Ohio Valley Section of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy (1996), and the ACS Analytical Chemistry Division's Award in Electrochemistry (2000). The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry % u n g Investigator Award was presented to Julie Macpherson. Macpherson has been a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the department of chemistry at the University of Warwick, in England, since 1999 and has held a parallel faculty position since 2000. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry under the
supervision of Patrick Unwin at the University of Warwick. In early work, her research focused on the development of the scanning electrochemical microscope (SECM), with particular emphasis on the understanding of dissolution phenomena at the microscopic level. Her postdoctoral work involved the establishment of novel hydrodynamic microelectrode techniques to facilitate the investigation of fast heterogeneous electron-transfer reactions and the trace-level detection of analytes. In particular, she pioneered the development of the microjet electrode and the radialflow microring electrode. Since assuming a faculty position, her work has focused on the development of high-resolution imaging techniques. Macpherson has developed procedures for the fabrication of nanometer-sized electrodes for electrochemical imaging and dual functionality SECM-AFM (atomic force microscopy) probes for simultaneous electrical or electrochemical and topographical imaging. This technology has been applied to biomedical- and materials-related problems. Recent work has seen the use of electrically contacted, single-walled, carbon nanotube-AFM probes for ultra-high resolution studies. She received Molecular Imaging's Scanning Probe Microscopist Award (1999) and holds grants for her research program from the UK.'s Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, Unilever, Syngenta, and Avecia. William S. Hancock, president of proteomics development for Thermo Finnigan Corp., was honored with the Stephen Dal Nogare Award for 2003. The award is presented by the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley; it honors outstanding work in separation sciences. Hancock received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and biochemistry in 1970 anda DSc. in 1993 from the University of Adelaide, in Australia. He was a reader in chemistry and biochemistry at Massey University, New Zealand, from 1972 to 1985; a visiting scientist at the Bureau of Drugs, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, in 1984; director of analytical chemistry and staff scientist at Genentech from 1985 to 1994; principal laboratory scientist at H P Labs from 1994 to 1997; adjunct professor of chemical engineering at Yale University in HTTP://WWW.CEN-ONLINE.ORG
>be 1996; and gained his current position in he was awarded honorary membership of SAS for his contributions to the field of 2000. Hancock, who serves as editor ofACS's IR spectroscopy He was president of SAS JournalofProteomeRe- in 1994 and still maintains an active inter; search, has received a est in the society, including being an asso| number of honors, ciate editor of Applied Spectroscopy. ; including the Martin | Gold Medal in Sep- The Williams-Wright Award of the CobI aration Science of lentz Society was presented to Neil Everthe British Chroma- allp a business research associate for tographic Society vibrational spectroscopy in ICFs meas(2000); Barnett Lec- urement science group in the U.K. He returer, Northeastern ceived the medal for his work on the deUniversity (1992); velopment and application of vibrational and the Walter Burfitt Prize & Research spectroscopy techniques for characterizing Medal of the Royal Society of New South materials and industrial processes. Wales for Pure or Applied Scientific ReEveralTs research in recent years has insearch (1984). cluded infrared and Raman studies of polymer structure, modeling the spatial The recipient of the 2003 Bomem- response and depth resolution of the conMichelson Award is Peter R. Griffiths, focal Raman microscope, process analysis chairman of the department of chemistry with Raman spectroscopy, and materials at the University of Idaho, Moscow The characterization using IR and Raman award is given annually by the Coblentz mapping/imaging. Most recently, he has Society and is sponsored by Bomem Inc. been studying picosecond Raman scatto honor scientists who have advanced vi- tering in powders with regard to fluoresbrational, molecular, Raman, or electron- cence rejection and also photon migration ic spectroscopy effects. Griffiths obtained his B.A. and Ph.D. He received a B.S. in chemistry with in chemistry from Oxford University. chemical physics from the University of After a postdoctoral stint at the Univer- %rk, in England, and a Ph.D. from the sity of Maryland, College Park, he worked University of Durham, in England. After with Digilab on the development of the a postdoctoral position at Rutherford Apfirst FTIR spectrometer of the modern pleton Laboratory in Oxford researching era. He subsequently held positions with high-power ultraviolet lasers, he joined ICI Sadtler Research Labs, Ohio University, in 1988 to establish a Raman spectroscopy and the University of California, River- facility For the past nine years, he has led side, before being appointed as chairman the IR and Raman spectroscopy activity of the department of chemistry at the in ICFs measurement science group. University of Idaho. Most of his work over the past 30 years has involved the devel- Franklin E. Barton II, of the U.S. Departopment of better ways of measuring IR ment of Agriculture inArhens, Ga., received spectra, including the optics for diffuse the 2002Tomas P Hirschfeld Award ofthe reflection spectroscopy and the chro- International Committee for Near Infrared matography/FTIRinterface. Much of the Spectroscopy for his effort in his lab over the past four or five career work in nearyears has involved development of the IR. He has worked at hardware and software for open-path USDAsince 1971 and FTIR spectrometry and investigations in- is currently a supervito surface-enhanced infrared absorption sory research chemist. spectrometry for reducing the detection Barton received a limits of direct-deposition interfaces be- B.S. degree in chemtween gas and liquid chromatographs and istry with a minor in the identification of intermediates in elec- mathematics from trochemical reactions. North Georgia ColGriffiths has received several honors lege, Dahlonega, and a Ph.D. in organic and awards, including the Coblentz Award chemistry in 1969 from the University of (1975) and the Fritz Pregl Medal of the Aus- Georgia, Athens. From 1969 until 1970, trian Society ofAnalytical Chemistry, the he served in the Army as a captain at Fort Gold Medal Award of the Newark Soci- Sill, Okla., and in Vietnam. During ety for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), and 1970-71, he served as a research chemist the University of Idaho Award for Research at the University of Georgia, before join& Creative Activity, all in 1995. Last year, ing USDA.H H T T P : / / W W W . C E N - O N L I N E . ORG
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American Association for the Advancement of Science is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications. The 2002 AAAS fellows received a certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin on Feb. 15, at the Fellows Forum during the 2003 AAAS meeting held in Denver. This year, 291 new fellows were elected, 31 of them by the AAAS Chemistry Section. They are listed here with their affiliations and citations. Richard Neil Armstrong, Vanderbilt University: For distinguished contributions to the chemistry of enzyme catalysis, particularly enzymes involved in detoxication reactions. Moungi G. Bawendi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: For seminal contributions to the discovery, development, and fundamental and applied studies of nanoscale materials, particularly for contributions to the development of nanocrystal quantum dots. David N. Beratan, Duke University: For establishing predictive molecular-level theories to describe electron transfer in proteins and DNA. David E. Bergbreiter, Texas A & M University: For distinguished contributions to the field of catalysis leading to recoverable, stable, homogeneous catalysts and for work on the surface chemistry of polymers. David C. Clary, University College London: For fundamental contributions to the quantum dynamics of molecules and for timely predictions for reaction dynamics and molecular clusters. Luis Echegoyen, Clemson University: For distinguished contributions to electrochemical processes in organic chemistry and for outstanding leadership in encouraging underrepresented minority students into science through research. Juli Feigon, University of California, Los Angeles: For developing the field of N M R structure determination of D N A and other large biomolecules, including RNAand protein-nucleic acid complexes. Robert W. Field, MIT: For distinguished contributions to molecular spectroscopy and for pioneering and applying multiphoton resonance techniques to elu46
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cidate electronic structure and vibrational dynamics from complex spectra. Robin L. Garrell, UCLA: For pioneering research in the field of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and the interactions of biological and sulfur-containing molecules with surfaces. Robert J. Gordon, University of Illinois, Chicago: For the application of coherent phase control to modify the branching ratios of molecular processes and to probe the continuum properties of molecules. Samuel 0. Grim, University of Maryland, College Park: For seminal research in the synthesis of novel organophosphorous ligands and their coordination compounds and for phosphorus N M R and structural studies of these compounds. Angela M. Gronenborn, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Md.: For the development and application of N M R techniques for solving the structures of larger proteins and protein complexes in solution. John Charles Hemminger, UC Irvine: For outstanding contributions to the development and application of new approaches for understanding fundamental processes on surfaces, including those in the atmosphere and on catalysts. Susan H. Hixson, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va.: For contributions to understanding enzyme-substrate interactions and for leadership in improving undergraduate science education. Paul L. Houston, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.: For outstanding contributions to molecular dynamics and spectroscopy including seminal work on vector correlations; coinvention of the product imaging technique; and important applications to iodine, ozone, and HCO. Kim D. Janda, Scripps Research Institute, Lajolla, Calif.: For fundamental studies in the areas of catalytic antibodies, immunopharmacotherapy as related to cancer and drug addiction, and combinatorial chemistry and resins for organic synthesis. Laura L. Kiessling, University of Wisconsin, Madison: For distinguished contributions to understanding cellular responses to ligand binding in the control of disease. David S. Kliger, U C Santa Cruz: For distinguished contributions to the study of dynamic changes in protein,chromophore interactions with light, and senior administration in science.
Marie E. Krafft, Florida State University, Tallahassee: For research in organic synthesis, particularly in developing synthetic pathways with unprecedentedly high stereoselectivity, as illustrated by seminal discoveries in the Pauson-Khand arena. Dennis C. Liotta, Emory University: For distinguished contributions to the synthesis and study of anticancer and antiviral drugs. Seth R. Marder, University of Arizona, Tucson: For distinguished contributions to the design and synthesis of new organic materials for electronics, optoelectronics, and photonics. Dale L. Perry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: For fundamental studies in metal-ion chemistry and related spectroscopy and for the dissemination of the results through teaching and mentoring. George M. Rubottom, NSF: For distinguished service as a program director in the Chemistry Division at NSF. David H. Russell, Texas A&M University: For distinguished contributions to fundamental ion chemistry and technology development essential to the emergence of mass spectrometry in the area of chemical and structural biology Alfred P. Sattelberger, Los Alamos National Lab: For distinguished contributions to early transition metal and actinide chemistry and for building an outstanding inorganic chemistry program at Los Alamos National Laboratory Henry F. Schaefer III, University of Georgia, Athens: For critical contributions to the development of computational quantum chemistry and for outstanding applications of this technique to a wide range of important chemical problems. Giacinto Scoles, Princeton University: For innovative use of molecular and cluster beams to improve the understanding of intermolecular forces, spectroscopy, chemical dynamics, and organic thin films. G. Warren Smith II, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pa.: For distinguished contributions to the field of chemistry, for service to professional scientific and higher education associations, and for academic leadership, particularly as a university president. Maria Tomasz, Hunter College, New % r k City: For distinguished contributions to elucidating mechanisms of D N A crosslinking with mitomycin and to advancing understanding of cancer treatment. Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge: For distinguished contributions to the field of analytical chemistry, particularly in the areas of sepHTTP://WWW.CEN-ONLINE.ORG
aration science and spectroscopy, and for distinguished mentoring contributions. Peter Wipf, University of Pittsburgh: For outstanding contributions to alkaloid synthesis, heterocyclic and organometallic synthetic methodology development, and combinatorial chemistry
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cations and for the electric power industry Supercritical water/steam is used in materials processing and in the proposed method of supercritical water oxidation of toxic waste. With industry eager for methods cleaner and safer than incineration to dispose of hazardous and toxic waste, oxidation of organics in a medium of supercritical water offers such an alternative, resulting in nontoxic effluents. Properties of supercritical water acquired at NIST CAREER HONOR Levelt Sengers receives for the benefit of the electric her award from Lindsay Owen-Jones, CEO of power industry were readily availLOreal, at the Paris ceremony. able for this new application. Throughout her career, Levelt Sengers netic systems. She demonstrated that water/steam falls in this universality class. has shown an interest in and talent for disWith her collaborators, she published ex- seminating knowledge through her lectensively on properties of near-critical flu- tures and reviews. Born and educated in ids andfluidmixtures of importance in the the Netherlands, she has a fascination for chemical process industry. She and her the Netherlands-based history of her field, NIST colleagues, working in an interna- as exemplified in her recent book, "How tional setting, have contributed in many Fluids Unmix." She is a member of the Naways to better characterization of water tional Academy of Engineering and the and steam properties for scientific appli- National Academy of Sciences. •
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