The FACSS conference was host to an anniversary symposium marking the first paper published on ICP-MS. The paper by Houk and coworkers (R.S. Houk, H.J. Svek, V. A.Fassell,C. Taylor, and A. Gray, Anal Chem,(1980), 52,2282.) was a watershed moment in modern atomic spectrometry, and was cited as the one of the 60 most influential papers published in Analytical Chemistry. The occasion was marked by a full day of presentations, Speakers included:
- Prof. Don Douglas, University of British Columbia
- Dr. David Koppenaal, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Prof. Paul Farnesworth, Brigham Young University
- Prof. John Olesik, The Ohio State University
- Dr. Dan Weiderin and Dr. Chuck Douthitt, Elemental Scientific and Thermo
- Prof. Norbert Jakubowski, BAM, Berlin, Germany
- Mr. Jeremy Felton, Indiana University
- Prof. Naoki Furuta, Chuo University
- Dr. Steve Wilbur, Agilent Technologies
- Dr. Kaveh Kahen, Perkin Elmer
- Dr. Dirk Ardelt, Spectro Instruments
- Dr. Steven Ray, Indiana University
Happy Birthday ICP-MS!