Report for Analytical Chemists
W. WAYNE MEINKE is presently Chief of the Analytical Chemistry Division in the Institute for Materials Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C, where he leads a program encompassing work in some 60 different areas of materials characterization with particular emphasis on trace analysis. In 1964—69 he also held the position of Chief of the
NBS Office of Standard Reference Materials. In this program he had responsibility for the preparation, analysis, and distribution of all types of well-characterized materials that can be used to calibrate measurement systems or to produce reference scientific data. Dr. Meinke received his A.B. degree in chemistry at Oberlin College in 1947 and his Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry under Professor Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California at Berkeley in 1950. He served on the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, 1950—63, progressing from Instructor to Full Professor. In 1963 he joined the National Bureau of Standards. Throughout his career, Dr. Meinke's professional interests have been in the fields of radio chemistry and analysis. He has authored singly or in collaboration over 125 scientific papers. He has edited with B. F. Scribner a book entitled "Trace Characterization—Chemical and Physical." He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ANA-
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gional Advisory Editor of the Analyst. He is active in the affairs of the American Chemical Society and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. At present he is Chairman of the Steering Panel on the Characterization of Pure Materials Program within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Dr. Meinke has been honored by the American Nuclear Society through its 1968 Special Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Nuclear Science—specifically in Industrial Applications of Radiation Technology through Activation Analysis. In 1968 he received the first George Hevesy Medal for Radio analytical Chemistry. Dr. Meinke was also honored with the 1968 Edward Bennett Rosa Award of the National Bureau of Standards for outstanding leadership of the Standard Reference Materials Program. He is an elected, honorary member of the Society for Analytical Chemistry, London.
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