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1995 EAS a w a r d winners Winners of the 1995 Eastern Analytical Symposium awards are Royce W. Murray and James W. Jorgenson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ad Bax of the National Institutes of Health, and William G. Fateley of Kansas State University. The awards will be presented at EAS '95, to be held Nov. 12-17 in Somerset, NJ. Royce W. Murray, professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Editor of Analytical Chemistry, will receive the Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry. Murray received his B.S. degree from Birmingham Southern College in 1957 and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Northwestern University in 1960. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Murray has received numerous awards, including the 1988 Charles N. Reilley Award, the 1990 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry award in electrochemistry, and the 1991 ACS award in analytical chemistry. His research interests include molecular design of electrode surfaces and transport and electron transfer dynamics at interfaces and in films. James W. Jorgenson, professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Associate Editor for separation science tor Analytical Chemistry, will receive the Award for Achievements in Separation Science for his work in microcolumn LC and capillary electrophoresis.
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Jorgenson received his B.S. degree from Northern Illinois University in 1974 and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Indiana University in 1979. He has received numerous awards, including the 1994 M.J.E. Golay Award and the 1994 Capillary Electrophoresis Award from the Frederick Conference on Capillary Electrophoresis. Ad Bax, a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, is the winner of the Award for Achievements in Magnetic Resonance. Bax received a Ph.D. in applied physics from the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 1981 and held positions there as well as at Oxford University (U.K.) and Colorado State University before joining NIH in 1983. He is being honored for his work in twodimensional and multiple quantum NMR and its application in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. William G. Fateley, distinguished professor of chemistry at Kansas State University, will receive the Award for Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for his work in FT-IR and Hadamard transform spectroscopy. Fateley received his A.B. degree from Franklin College (Kansas) in 1951 and his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 1956. He held positions at Northwestern University, the University of Maryland, the University of Minnesota, Dow Chemical Company, and Carnegie-Mellon University before joining Kansas State in 1972.
Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 67, No. 9, May 1, 1995
Thermo to buy Fisons scientific instruments Thermo Instrument Systems of Waltham, MA, a subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corporation, has announced that it plans to purchase the scientific instruments division of U.K.-based Fisons pic for £202 million ( ~ $325 million). Arvin H. Smith, president and CEO of Thermo Instrument Systems, says of the move, "We believe that the scientific instruments division of Fisons will provide a strategically attractive extension to our analytical instrument business." Fisons' scientific instrument division includes VG Instruments and Fisons Applied Sensor Technologies in the U.K, Applied Research Laboratories in Switzerland, Gebriider Haake in Germany, CE Instruments in Italy, and Kevex in the United States, as well as associated worldwide sales and service operations. The division employs more than 3000 people and ended 1994 with a loss of £11.7 million on sales of £261.7 million. Tripos and ForeFront form alliance Tripos, Inc. (St. Louis, MO) and The Forefront Group (Houston, TX) have announced an alliance aimed at integrating Tripos' chemical modeling and information management tools with ForeFront's electronic notebook. The system will allow researchers to organize, secure, and share intellectual property across PC, Macintosh, and UNIX platforms. John McAlister, CEO of Tripos, says that the alliance promotes Tripos' strategy of "providing a unified solution to the scientific analysis and discovery process— improving productivity and time to market." Adds David Dikora, president of the ForeFront Group, 'Tripos' expertise in the chemical and pharmaceutical markets, combined with our knowledge management tools, creates a compelling solution for the R&D community." Tripos will initially offer the virtual notebook system as a stand-alone notebook that accepts information from Tripos applications as well as handling standard word processing and spreadsheet applications.
