2008 Pittcon Final Program - Pittcon Web Archives

Award Presentations at PITTCON 2008
An important function of Pittcon is to recognize and honor scientists who have made outstanding contributions to analytical
chemistry and applied spectroscopy.
PITTSBURGH ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AWARD
Tuesday, Room 272
1:30 p.m.
Milton L. Lee, H. Tracy Hall
Professor of Analytical Chemistry
at Brigham Young University, will
receive the 2008 Pittsburgh
Analytical Chemistry Award from
the Society for Analytical Chemists
of Pittsburgh (SACP). This award
is presented annually to recognize
significant contributions to the field
of analytical chemistry by the
introduction of a significant technique, theory, or
instrument or by providing exceptional training or a fertile
environment for analytical chemists. Professor Lee is best
known for his research in capillary separations and mass
spectrometry detection.
Professor Lee received a B.A. in Chemistry from the
University of Utah in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Analytical
Chemistry from Indiana University in 1975. Dr. Lee spent
one year (1975-76) at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology as a Postdoctoral Research Associate before
taking a faculty position in the Chemistry Department at
Brigham Young University. Dr. Lee is an author or
co-author over 500 scientific publications. Since 1980, he
has given over 600 presentations on various aspects of
his research.
Milton Lee has been highly recognized for his achievements
in research and teaching. Included in this partial list of
honors are: The M.S. Tswett Chromatography Medal
(1984), Keene P. Dimick Chromatography Award (1988),
American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography
(1988), Russian Tswett Chromatography Medal (1992),
Martin Gold Medal (1996), Latin-American
Chromatography Congress (COLACRO) Medal (1998),
M.J.E. Golay Award (1998), American Chemical Society
Award in Chemical Instrumentation (1998), Doctor of
Philosophy honoris causa, Uppsala University (1998), Dal
Nogare Award (1999), Eastern Analytical Symposium
Award for Achievements in Separation Science (1999) and
the California Separation Science Society Award (2005). He
is a member of the Scientific Committee for the International
Symposia on Capillary Chromatography.
Professor Lee is also an entrepreneur. In 1984 he cofounded
Lee Scientific to manufacture and market
supercritical fluid chromatography instrumentation, and in
1991, he co-founded Sensar Corporation to manufacture
and market unique time-of-flight mass spectrometry
instrumentation.
PITTSBURGH SPECTROSCOPY AWARD
Tuesday, Room 272
8:30 p.m.
Sanford A. Asher, Distinguished
Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Pittsburgh, will
receive the 2008 Pittsburgh
Spectroscopy Award, presented by
the Spectroscopy Society of
Pittsburgh (SSP). The SSP Award,
established in 1957, honors an
individual who has made
outstanding contributions to the
field of spectroscopy. Asher will be honored for his
pioneering work in both developing UV Raman
Spectroscopy (UVRS) and demonstrating its utility in
analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, materials
science, and physical chemistry.
Professor Asher received a B.A in Chemistry at the
University of Missouri, St. Louis, in 1971 and received his
Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley in 1977, He was a post-doctoral
fellow in Applied Physics at Harvard between 1977 to
1980 when he joined the faculty at the University of
Pittsburgh. He has authored more than 220 papers and
25 patents.
Asher’s group was the first to build tunable UVR
instruments in the early 1980’s, and applied UVR to the
study of small and large molecules, advancing to studies
of biological structure and dynamics. This work led to the
first measurements of the Gibbs free energy landscape
along protein unfolding and folding secondary structure
reaction coordinates. This provides the first experimental
insight into α-helix melting and refolding. Their UVR
spectral-structure correlations have made UVR the most
powerful dilute solution secondary structural probe. In
addition, Asher’s group pioneered development of
photonic crystal materials and devices for optics and
spectroscopy. Asher is also the scientific founder of the
startup company, Glucose Sensing Technologies, LLC.
Professor Asher’s research is highly recognized. Awards
include the 2005 American Association of Clinical
Chemists’ Sigi Ziering, the 2004 University of Missouri
Distinguished Alumni, the 2002 ACS Pittsburgh, the 2002
Optical Society of America, the SAS Ellis Lippincott, the
Coblentz Society 1999 Bomem-Michelson and the SAS
Lester Strock, the 1994 ACS Analytical Division
Spectrochemical Analysis, the 1996 University of
Pittsburgh Chancellors Research, and in 1984 the
American Heart Association Established Investigators
and the NIH Career Development Award.
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