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Professor David Hahn

Professor David Hahn of the University of Florida has won the Lester Strock Award for 2011.  The award is presented by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in recognition of significant and sustained contributions to atomic spectroscopy.  The award panel cited in particular Professor Hahn’s contributions to the fundamental understanding of plasma/analyte interactions in Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy.  Congratulations Professor Hahn!

Martín Resano, JAAS Editorial Board member, provides an introduction to the new RSC mobile app, and some tips for how it can help you to stay in touch with the latest research from RSC journals

The RSC has made available a mobile App that permits access to more than 30 journals from the RSC publishing platform. The application entitles all iPhone/iPad/iPod touch users to follow the RSC Journals in which they are interested in a very simple way. As illustrated in the screen captures attached (from an iPhone), the App provides fast access to the latest articles of the selected Journals, which can be saved (as pdf or html) for off-line reading, or just shared with colleagues via Facebook, Twitter or e-mail, all with a single click. Moreover, there is also a fast search engine, such that all the on-line content of RSC Journals can be thoroughly explored.

In order to benefit from all these features, the users need to be connected to a wireless network from a subscribing institution/organisation (otherwise, only abstracts and not the full version of the papers will be visible). However, more forms of authentication will be implemented soon. An Android version is also expected to be available in early 2012.

Users who have an RSC Publishing personal account however can use this app to access all the free content available, without the need for a subscription!

The App is free and can be downloaded from the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/rsc-mobile/id459371444?mt=8

Martín Resano

Reason 1: Follow RSC journals                                                                      Reason 2: Check the latest articles

Reason 3: Save your favourite articles                                                       Reason 4: Read your article in PDF or HTML

Reason 5: Share with your friends and colleagues                         Reason 6: Search for new articles in your research area

Reason 7: …plus much more!

More information about the RSc Mobile App can be found here: https://blogs.rsc.org/technical/2011/09/26/rscmobile/

The DASp – German Working group for Applied Spectroscopy – regularly awards the “Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Preis für analytische Spektroskopie” to honour preferably the work of young scientists from universities, research institutes or industry who made excellent contributions to analytical spectroscopy. Especially preferred is an oeuvre in new areas like spectroscopy in nano compartments, and spectroscopy of biomolecules. The Award consists of an award-document and an amount of € 2.500,00 sponsored by Perkin Elmer GmbH and the DASp seeks nominations for the 2012 Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for Analytical Spectroscopy. The Award will be presented at the Analytica Conference in April 2012 in Munich (Germany).

A nomination should include:

1. letter with the candidate´s accomplishments
2. list of publications or recent work,
3. scientific curriculum vitae stating the age of the candidate; the candidate´s address, phone fax and e-mail.

Nominations can be made by members of DASp but eligibility is open for any scientist meeting the requirements. Self-nomination is excluded. The decision as to whom the prize is to be awarded shall be made by a jury consisting of the current members of the board of DASp.

Further information is available here.

All documents should be sent no later than 31 December 2011 to:
Prof. Dr. Detlef Günther, President of the Jury for the Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award 2012, Laboratorium für Anorganische Chemie, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI, CH-8093 Zürich (Schweiz)