ChromSoc Announces 2024 Martin and Silver Jubilee Medal Winners

The UK-based Chromatographic Society (ChromSoc) has announced its two 2024 recipients of its most prestigious honor, the Martin Medal, in addition to three professors who have been chosen for the organization’s Silver Jubilee Medal.

The honorees were revealed in a press release obtained by LCGC on December 21.

Clockwise from top left: David McCalley, Fabrice Gritti, John Langley, Kevin Schug, and Lucie Nováková | Image Credit: © ChromSoc

David McCalley of the University of the West of England and Fabrice Gritti of Waters Corporation will both be receiving the Martin Medal.

McCalley is known as a trailblazer in hydrophilic-interaction chromatography (HILIC), has routinely been named among the world’s 100 most influential analytical scientists by Analytical Science, and is a former winner (2008) of the Jubilee Medal, according to the press release. He is the author of the most-cited article in the history of LCGC Europe.

Gritti, who has been with Waters Corporation since 2015 following a stint as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee, is also a former Jubilee Medal awardee (2013) and only the fifth industrial chromatographer to be selected to receive the Martin Medal.

The Martin Medal, awarded since 1978, was named for A.J.P. Martin, who together with Richard Synge received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for advancements in partition chromatography.

Receiving 2024’s Silver Jubilee Medals, so named to celebrate ChromSoc’s 25th anniversary in 1982, are professors Lucie Nováková of Charles University, Kevin Schug of the University of Texas at Arlington, and John Langley of the University of Southampton.

Nováková’s work focuses primarily on fast liquid chromatography (LC) and supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) techniques coupled to mass spectrometry (MS), particularly in pharmaceutical and plant analysis. Schug specializes in researching fundamentals of gas- and liquid-phase separations with a focus on water treatment analysis. Langley is known for polymeric and organometallic separation and detection research using multiple techniques interfaced with MS.

McCalley and Schug serve on the LCGC Editorial Advisory Board.