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The Federation of Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), of which the RSC is a member society, has announced the winners of its Innovation Awards.

The FACSS Innovation Awards showcase the newest and most creative science debuted orally at a FACSS-organised conference.  At last year’s conference, held in October in Reno, Nevada, USA, the panel selected four equal awardees:

Ultrasound Enhanced ATR mid-IR Fibre Optic Probe for Spectroscopy of Particles in Suspensions
Cosima Koch, Markus Brandstetter, Stefan Radel, Bernhard Lendl
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Large-Area Standoff Planetary Raman Measurements Using a Novel Spatial Heterodyne Fourier Transform Raman Spectrometer
S. Michael Angel¹, Nathaniel R. Gomer¹, Shiv K. Sharma², J. Chance Carter^3
1University of South Carolina, ²University of Hawaii, ³Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging Studies of Dynamic Processes in Reversed Phase Chromatographic Materials
Justin Cooper, Eric Peterson, Joel Harris
University of Utah

Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry – New Dimension of LIBS
Alexander Bol’shakov¹, Richard Russo^1,2, Xianglei Mao², Dale Perry², Osman Sorkhabi², Chris McKay^3
1Applied Spectra, Inc., Fremont, CA 94538, ²LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94720, ³NASA-Ames Research Center

Each awardee will be presented with a cash prize and commemorative plaque, and each awardee has been invited to return to the conference in 2012 to become a point of emphasis in the scientific program. The awards will be formally presented at FACSS’s SCIX conference, which will be held in Kansas City, 30 September – 04 October, 2012.

Professor Peter Griffiths, recipient of the 2012 ANACHEM Award

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), of which the RSC is a member society, has announced the winners of two awards.

The 2012 ANACHEM Award will be presented to Peter Griffiths, Emeritus Professor at the University of Idaho, USA.

Professor Griffiths completed his Ph.D. at Oxford University in 1967, and has worked in many different aspects of vibrational spectroscopy since then.  The research in his laboratory has been largely centered on the application of infrared and Raman spectrometry to the solution of problems of analytical, environmental and structural chemistry.

The Association of Analytical Chemists, ANACHEM, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the general welfare and education of analytical chemists and to the advancement of the theory and practice of analytical chemistry as a profession; it was a founding member of FACSS.

Dr Don Pivonka, recipient of the 2012 Charles Mann Award

The 2012 Charles Mann Award for Analytical Raman Spectroscopy will be presented to Don Pivonka, a senior principal chemist at  Incyte Pharmaceuticals.

Dr Pivonka received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Kansas State University, and then went on to work for many organisations including ICI and AstraZeneca.  He has been a leader in the use of infrared and Raman spectroscopy within the area of pharmaceutical discovery, and has championed novel applications for understanding relationships between drug candidates and their ligand/receptor interaction in biological systems.

The Charles Mann award for Applied Raman spectroscopy was instituted in 2002 by FACSS following the untimely death of Professor Charles (Charlie) Mann. Professor Mann was a long-standing faculty member at Florida State University, and contributed significantly to the development of analytical Raman spectroscopy.

SCIX 2012, 30 Sep - 04 Oct, 2012

As award recipients, both Peter and Don will give a plenary lectures at the SCIEX conference in Kansas City later this year.

Congratulations!

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