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Pittsburgh Conference Atlantic City, N.J., March 9-13, 1981 "Continuing Education" will be the theme of the 32nd Pittsburgh Confer ence and Exposition on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, to be held in the Atlantic City Con vention Center, Atlantic City, N.J., on March 9-13, 1981. T h e 90 technical sessions scheduled include 20 sympo sia and a total of over 800 papers. T h e Exposition of Modern Laboratory E q u i p m e n t will feature 500 exhibitors in over 1100 booths, showing the latest analytical instruments and related chemicals and publications. T h e following symposia have been arranged and will be presented as part of the technical program: Vibrational Spectra of Surfaces and Adsorbed Molecules, arranged by Foil Miller, University of Pitts burgh Practical S c a l e d - D o w n Liquid Chromatographic Systems, ar ranged by J o h n Walker, independent consultant, and Peter Talarico, Wa ters Associates T h e Interface b e t w e e n Indus
trial H y g i e n e and the Analytical Chemist, arranged by Richard Danchik, Aluminum Company of America, and J o h n Frohliger, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health T h e Future of Capillary Column Gas Chromatography, arranged by C u r t White, U.S. Department of Ener gy, and Milton Lee, Brigham Young University Analytical Laboratory Computer N e t w o r k i n g , arranged by Joseph Biber, ARCO/Polymers, and Jim Mitchell, Hewlett-Packard Co. Environmental Pollution: Stan dards, Measurements, and Prob lems, arranged by Hector Silva, Westinghouse Research and Development Center, and Walter Zielinski, National Bureau of Standards T r a c k i n g D r u g s as They Travel t h r o u g h the Body, arranged by Jo seph Feldman, Duquesne University Clinical Toxicology, arranged by Rita Windisch, Mercy Hospital Sampling and Analysis of Air
borne Contaminants from Fossil Fuel: Mobile and Stationary S o u r c e s , arranged by Robert Freedman, U.S. Bureau of Mines Spectroscopy Society of Pitts burgh Award Consumer Products and the Ana lytical Chemist, arranged by John Frohliger, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health R e c e n t Developments in the E l e c t r o c h e m i c a l Determination of Pollutants, arranged by Johannes Coetzee, University of Pittsburgh Synfuels from Coal, arranged by Herbert Retcofsky, U.S. Department of Energy Analytical Chemistry: N e w Di rections for This Decade, arranged by Henry Freiser, University of Ari zona Automated Stream Analyses for P r o c e s s Control, arranged by Dan Manka, independent consultant S u r f a c e Analysis of Materials, ar ranged by David Hercules, University of Pittsburgh
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News High Purity Water: Genesis to Analysis, arranged by Gerald Carlson, Westinghouse Research and Developm e n t Center Coblentz Award Symposium, arranged by Bernard Bulkin, Polytechnic Institute of New York Dal N o g a r e Symposium, arranged by Mary Kaiser, E.I. du P o n t de Nemours & Co., and Gerald Umbreit, Greenwood Laboratories Computers in Vibrational S p e c troscopy, arranged by Robert Jakobsen, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Chris Brown, University of Rhode Island D e p t h Analysis U s i n g Surface T e c h n i q u e s (ASTM E-42), arranged by H. G. Tompkins, Bell Laboratories Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh Award James R. Durig, professor of chemistry and dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at the University of South Carolina, is winner of the 1981 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award—a prize of $1500 and a scroll to be presented a t the conference. Durig did his undergraduate work at Washington and Jefferson College, and received his P h D at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. He is being cited for his creative and prolific studies of molecular bonding and interaction through the use of infrared, Raman, and microwave spectroscopy, and for his enthusiastic leadership in education and scientific organizations and conferences. Other awards to be presented during the conference will be listed in the preliminary program, available in December. T h e social program and technical tours will also be described in the preliminary program. Advance registration is urged. Registration forms mailed by February 1980 will be processed so that a badge, and vouchers for the final program, the abstracts, and the souvenir are mailed to conferees. Registration fees are: $20 for advance registration; $30 for registration at the conference; $10 for students; and $5 for admission to the exhibit only. Registration forms will be in the preliminary program, or may be obtained by writing to: Homer J. Birch, 100 Warrendale Ambridge Rd., Wexford, Pa. 15090. Housing forms will be in the preliminary program, but may also be obtained by writing to: Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Bureau, 16 Central Pier, Atlantic City, N.J. 08401. All registrants will be able to use the employment bureau operating at the meeting. Job candidate and employer forms are available from: Edgar
W. Albaugh, 1532 Foxwood Dr., Monroeville, Pa. 15146. For information on the Spouses Program at the conference, contact: Rose Marie Sharkins, 204 Arizona Dr., Lower Burrell, Pa. 15068. Conference preliminary programs will be mailed to conferees who attended the Pittsburgh Conference during the past three years. Copies of the preliminary program can be otherwise obtained from: T h e Pittsburgh Conference, 437 Donald Rd., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235. Any further information on the conference may be obtained by writing to the same address.
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Jon Amy Wins Chemical Instrumentation Award J o n a t h a n W. Amy of P u r d u e University is the 1981 recipient of the Chemical Instrumentation Award, sponsored by the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and by the Hamilton Company of Reno, Nev. T h e purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage achievement in the origination or improvement of analytical instrumentation. T h e award consists of a plaque, $2000, and travel expenses to the Spring 1981 ACS National Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., where the award will be presented during a symposium in Amy's honor. Amy received a BA at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1948, and earned MS and P h D degrees at P u r d u e in 1950 and 1955. He is presently director of instrumentation with the rank of professor at Purdue's D e p a r t m e n t of Chemistry. Amy's professional interests are in analytical instrumentation, chromatography, mass spectrometry, and laboratory automation. He has organized and instructed short courses in gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, ESCA, nuclear magnetic resonance, and computer automation.
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Halâsz and Horvath Win Tswett Medal T h e M.S. Tswett Chromatography Medals for 1980 were awarded to Istvân Halâsz and Csaba Horvath at the 15th International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography, which ran concurrently with Expochem '80, Oct. 6-9 in Houston, Tex. T h e medals recognized the pioneering contributions of these two men to the development of gas and liquid chromatography. Istvân Halâsz attended the Universities of Szeged and Budapest, receiving his P h D in chemistry in 1949. Subsequently, he served as assistant and later as docent at the Technical University of Budapest, and as head of the Department of Adsorption and Catalysis, Central Research Institute of Chemistry at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. He later held positions in German chemical industry, and became associated with Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, serving as lecturer, privatdozent, and, finally, as associate professor there. In 1970 and 1971 he was a visiting professor at Northeastern University in Boston and at the University of Nice in France. Since 1971 he has held the Chair for Applied Physical Chemistry a t the University des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Federal
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Republic of (West) Germany. In 1978 he was awarded the Chromatography Commemorative Medal from the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. T h e author of many papers on various aspects of gas and liquid chromatography, Halâsz was one of the early pioneers in high-resolution gas chromatography (GC), and did significant work in the development of inlet systems and columns for GC. A REPORT by Halâsz on reversed phases in liquid chromatography appears in this issue of A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y , ρ
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C s a b a Horvath studied at the Technical University of Budapest, and later became a faculty member in its Department of Organic Chemical Technology. In 1956 he moved to Ger many and worked at Farbwerke Hoechst AG. Subsequently he contin ued his studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main, where he received his P h D in physical chemistry in 1963. After emigrating to the U.S., he be came a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. In 1964 he moved to Yale University, where he is now pro fessor of Engineering and Applied Science. Horvath is the author or coauthor of over 100 scientific papers, and holds numerous patents. He received the Stephen Dal Nogare Award in 1978 and the Commemorative Chromatog raphy Medal of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 1979 for his accomplish ments in chromatography. Like Ha lâsz, Horvâth has made significant contributions to both gas and liquid chromatography. Presently, his research activities are equally divided between chromatography and various aspects of biotechnology, with particular regard to biochemical separations.
Marcia Cohen has joined the staff of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY as editorial assistant. Before joining AC, Cohen was a research assistant at Squibb Institute for Medical Research in Princeton, N.J., where she assisted in basic research on hypertension. In the course of this research, she used a number of analytical techniques, including column chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, to characterize organic synthesis products. She is a native of New York City, and earned a BA degree in chemistry from Cornell University in 1977.
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NSF Opens Competition for Fellowships T h e National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to award approximately 550 fellowships in the spring of 1981 for advanced study to help meet the continuing national need for qualified scientific personnel. Included are 400 N S F graduate fellowships, 50 N S F mi nority graduate fellowships, 50 N S F postdoctoral fellowships, and 50 N A T O postdoctoral fellowships. T h e fellowships include monthly stipends and, in some cases, cost-ofeducation allowances. For program in formation and applications, contact: Fellowship Office, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418 (for graduate, minority graduate, and postdoctoral fellowships); or NATO Fellowship Program Office, Division of Scientific Personnel Improvement, NSF, Washington, D.C. 20550 (for N A T O postdoctoral fellowships).
Alber Wins Benedetti-Pichler Award Herbert Karl Alber is the winner of the 1980 Benedetti-Pichler Award, to be presented at the Eastern Analytical Symposium in New York on Nov. 20. Alber will speak t h a t day on "A HalfCentury of Classical Microanalysis." T h e Benedetti-Pichler Award is given annually by the American Microchemical Society in recognition of outstand ing work in microchemistry. Alber studied chemistry in Austria. He has been employed for most of his career at the Arthur H. Thomas Co., where he is presently director of Re search & Development. A member of ACS, A S T M , AAAS, and the Ameri can and Austrian Microchemical So cieties, Alber is the author of over 80 publications and three books.
Call for Papers 64th Chemical Conference and Ex hibition of T h e Chemical Institute of Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. May 3 1 - J u n e 3. Papers are invited on top ics including analytical chemistry, en vironmental affairs, macromolecular science, biological chemistry, medici nal chemistry, and inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Abstract forms should be obtained prior to sub-
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