Pittcon Announces 2010 Award Recipients

Pittcon has announced the recipients of ten prestigious awards recognizing the significant contributions of leaders in the fields of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy. The awards will be presented at Pittcon 2010, February 28 to March 5, 2010.

The 2010 Pittcon Heritage Award will be presented toProfessor Walter Jennings, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, and Cofounder of J&W Scientific. The award will be presented during the Opening Session, which begins at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 28, 2010.

The other nine awards and recipients are as follows:

Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science - Christy L. Haynes Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota

Bomem-Michelson Award - Professor Richard P. Van Duyne, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University

Charles N. Reilley Award - Richard M. Crooks, Robert A. Welch Chair in Materials Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin

Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award - Lane C. Sander, Leader of the Organic Chemical Metrology Group within the Analytical Chemistry Division, NIST

Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award - Lloyd M. Smith, W.L.Hubbell Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin

The Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award - Joshua J. Coon, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award - Robin M. Hochstrasser, University of Pennsylvania

The Ralph N. Adams Award - Catherine Fenselau, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland

Williams-Wright Award - Patrick J. Treado, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, ChemImage Corporation