2008 Pittcon Final Program - Pittcon Web Archives

DAL NOGARE AWARD
Monday, Room 252
8:30 a.m.
John G. Dorsey, the Katherine
Blood Hoffman Professor of
Chemistry at Florida State
University, will receive the
prestigious Dal Nogare Award for
2008, presented by The
Chromatography Forum of
Delaware Valley (CFDV), for his
outstanding work in the field of
chromatography. Awardees are
chosen on the basis of his or her contributions to the
fundamental understanding of the chromatographic
process. Established in honor of Stephen Dal Nogare,
who died in 1968 after serving six months as President of
the Forum, the CFDV Award recognizes Dr. Dorsey’s
research and teaching accomplishments in liquid
chromatography.
Professor Dorsey received his Ph.D. degree in Analytical
Chemistry in 1979, under T. W. Gilbert at the University of
Cincinnati, and then spent ten years on the faculty at the
University of Florida. He returned to Cincinnati as
Professor in 1989 and moved to Florida State University
as Chemistry Department Chair (1994-1999).
Dorsey’s research interests are in the areas of
fundamental liquid chromatography, separation science,
and old Bordeaux wines. He has about 130 publications
in these areas, and he serves as Editor for Journal of
Chromatography A. He has graduated 52 Ph.D. students,
and recently received the 2004 Florida Section Award of
the American Chemical Society, the 2004 Eastern
Analytical Symposium Award for Achievements in
Separation Science, and the 2006 American Chemical
Society Award in Chromatography.
Dorsey’s best-known work, the development of the Foley-
Dorsey equation in 1983, is the most accurate manual
method for the determination of column efficiency. He has
concentrated on the use of micelles as eluent modifiers
for reverse-phase HPLC and investigated the retention
process in RPLC using solvatochromic probes. With over
130 publications in separation science, John Dorsey has
contributed to the deep level of chemical understanding
of separation processes.
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Monday, Room 255
8:30 a.m.
Neil Kelleher, Professor at the
University of Illinois, will receive
the 2008 Pittsburgh Conference
Achievement Award. The award,
sponsored jointly by The
Pittsburgh Conference and the
Society for Analytical Chemists of
Pittsburgh (SACP), recognizes
individuals for outstanding
scientific achievements within ten
years following completion of his or her Ph.D.
Professor Neil Kelleher received a B.S. and B.A. from
Pacific Lutheran University in 1992, a Fulbright
Fellowship the following year, and a Ph.D. with Tadhg
Begley and Fred McLafferty (Cornell University) in 1997.
After a NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship with Chris Walsh
(Harvard Medical School), Kelleher joined the faculty at
the University of Illinois in 1999. He has received several
awards including a Packard Fellowship, the NSF
CAREER Award, the Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award,
and support from the Burroughs Wellcome, the Searle,
and the Dreyfus Foundations. Kelleher has interest in
Mass Spectrometry-based enzymology and “Top Down”
proteomics using intact proteins for efficient detection of
their post-translational modifications (such as those
found in chromatin).
PITTCON HERITAGE AWARD
Sunday, La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom C
4:30 p.m.
Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D.,
President, The Institute for
Systems Biology, Seattle,
Washington, is the recipient of the
prestigious Pittcon Heritage
Award. This award recognizes
outstanding individuals whose
entrepreneurial careers have
shaped the instrumentation
community, inspired achievement,
promoted public understanding of the modern instrumentation
sciences, and highlighted the role of analytical
chemistry in world economies. (See Pg. 20)
The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) serves the
community of the chemical and molecular sciences and
the wider public by treasuring the past, educating the
present, and inspiring the future. In fulfillment of its
mission, CHF maintains a world-class collection of
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