1982 Tswett Medals go to Karmen and Lipsky The M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medals for 1982 were awarded to Professors A. Karmen and S. R. Lipsky at the 17th International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography which took place April 5-8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Karmen and Lipsky were recognized for their contributions to the biomedical sciences.

A. Karmen

Arthur Karmen was born in 1930, in the City of New York. He studied at New York University receiving his A. B. degree in 1950 and his M. D. degree in 1954. After internship and residency in medicine, he was associated with the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1963 to 1968 he was with the Division of Nuclear Medicine at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1968, he has been a clinical pathologist and director of laboratories, first at New York University Medical Center and then at the Albert Ein- stein College of Medicine. His present position is that of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Karmen is the author and coauthor of about 100 papers .in various fields associated with analytical chemistry, clinical chemistry, and medicine. While in

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medical school, he developed methodsfor the measurement of transaminases and dehydrogenases in serum which are widely used today for the diagnosis of heart and liver diseases. At NIH, he significantly contributed to the develop- ment of microanalytical methods primarily using gas chromatography, including the development of ionization detectors, detectors for radioisotopes, detection methods for liquid chromatography using gas chromatography detectors, and methods for applying these devices in studies of lipid metabolism. He is particularly known in the field of gas chromatography for the development of thermionic detectors including a family of detectors which can be “tuned” to be selective for certain heteroatoms. His current research interests include methods and instruments for the micro- analysis of enzymes and drugs in serum using centrifugal analyzers, gas chromato- graphy, and mass spectrometry.

Seymour (‘Sandy’} Richard Lipsky was born in 1924 in San Francisco, California. He obtained his 6. S. degree from the University Heights College in 1944, majoring in chemistry and biology. In 1949 he received his Medical Degree from the State University of New York’s College of Medicine. After completing his residency training in medicine at the University of California in 1952, he accepted a post- doctoral research fellowship with Profes- sor John P. Peters in the Department of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed to the Yale faculty, moving through the ranks of instructor, assistant, and associate professor in the Department of Medicine. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1954. In 1966, because of his interest in the

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basic sciences, he was appointed to the post that he presently holdsasprofessorof physical sciences and director of the Section of Physical Sciences at the Medical School.

Dr. Lipsky is the author and coauthor of over 90 papers in the areas of lipid chemistry, gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, and mass Spectrometry. His involvement in gas chromatography started in 1956. He pioneered in the application of the technique tothe analysis of fatty acids, the development of new instrumentation and the newtechniquesof gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography. At present Dr. Lipsky’s scientific interests involve the application of advanced chromatographic and spectrometric techniques to certain aspects of the problem of chemical carcinogenesis.

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