New ChromatographyAward Winners
American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography As announced at the recent 168th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society,
E. Cremer
E. Stahl professor and director of the Institute of Pharmacognosy and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Saarbriicken, Germany, was named to receive the 1975 ACS Award in Chromatography at the 169th National Meeting of the ACS to be held in April 1975 in Philadelphia.
is one of the pioneers in gas adsorption chromatography. Her work in this field began in 1944, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and continued in the years after the end of the Second World War, under very difficult conditions. Her basic papers describing the system were published in 1949-1951. Later, Dr. Cremer also pioneered in the investigation and development of selective GC detectors. At present, she is professor emeritus of Innsbruck University.
Dr. Stahl needs no introduction: his pioneering contributions to thin-layer chromatography, gradient thin-layer chromatography and, more recently, thermofractography are well known. His actuevements are not restricted to the development of the necessary equipment to make TLC a universally accepted technique: he also demonstrated the wide range applicability of the method. His book Thin-Layer Chromatography, A Laboratory Handbook published first in 1962 in German, and later translated into English and Russian is on the desk of everybody working in this field.
The M. S. Tswett ChromatographyMedal The organizers of the International Symposia on the Advances in Chromatography recently established the M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medal as a lasting public recognition of important achievements and research in this field. The medal was awarded the first time at the Ninth Symposium held November 4 - 7 , 1974, in Houston, Texas, to E. Cremer, D. H. Desty, A. I. M. Keulemans, A. V. Kiselev and A. J. P. Martin, recognizing their pioneer achievements in chromatography. Further medals will be periodically awarded at subsequent symposia.
D. H. Desty received the Tswett Medal for his contribution to the development of chromatography as an analytical method, particularly in the petroleum industry. He has spent his whole career since 1948 at the Research Centre of British Petroleum Company, at Sunbury-onThames, near London, in England, where he is currently a research associate. Mr. Desty's involvement in gas chromatography started in 1952 and encompassed all aspects of the method including high speed, high effiChromatographia, Vol. 7, No. 12, December 1974
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ciency open tubular columns, detectors, and many other questions. In parallel to this technical work, Mr. Desty played a primary part in the organization of the Gas Chromatography Discussion Group and the first two international symposia.
and of the Laboratory of Surface Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., in Moscow. He is one of the best known scientists in the whole world in the field of surface chemistry, adsorption and adsorption chromatography. Dr. Kiselev is the author and coauthor of over 500 papers and also of a number of books one of which on Gas Adsorption Chromatography - written in cooperation with Dr. Yashin - was also published in an English edition. The citation of Dr. Kiselev's award emphasizes the importance of his life work in this field.
A. 1. M. Keulemans
is since 1958 professor and head of the Instrumental Analysis Laboratory at the Technical University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. His activity in gas chromatography started in 1952 when he was associated with Shell Research Laboratories, in Amsterdam. In the following years, he was involved in a wide variety of investigations of various aspects of gas chromatography; he wrote one of the first monographs on the method published in 1957 and subsequently translated into six languages. The citation of Dr. Keulemans' award emphasizes his achievements in the dissimination of chromatography, "education, and in promoting cooperation among chromatographers from various countries.
A. J. P. Martin
Probably none of us would read this journal - and indeed, even the journal would not exist - without the activities of Dr. Martin. In 1941, together with R. L. M. Synge, he developed partition chromatography; in 1945, together with R. Consden and A. H. Gordon, paper chromatography; and in 1952, together with A. T. James, gas-liquid partition chromatography. For the development of partition chromatography - the basis of all these methods - he received in 1952, together with Dr. Synge, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At present, he is Robert A. Welch Professor at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. The Tswett Medal was awarded to Dr. Martin for his life work. In the name of the editors and publishers of Chromatographia I am happy to congratulate the recipients of these awards. May their contribution help in the further advancement of chromatography, for the benefit of us all.
A. V. Kiselev
is professor and director of the Laboratory of Adsorption and Gas Chromatography at Lomonosov University
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