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1985 Tswett Chromatography Medals Awarded to Knox, Macek and Poole The M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medals for 1985 were awarded to John H. Knox, Karel Macek and Colin F. Poole at the 21st International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography which took place June 3-6 in Oslo. These scientists were recognized for their contributions to the development of chromatography. John Henderson Knox was born in 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated in 1949 from the University of Edinburgh, receiving his B.Sc., and in 1953 from Cambridge University, with a Ph.D. in Chemistry. In 1963 Edinburgh University granted him a D. Sc. degree. In 1953 Dr. Knox was appointed lecturer at the Depart- ment of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, and has been associated with this school since that time. His present position is Personal Professor of Physical Chemistry, and Director of the Wolfson Liquid Chromatography Unit at the University. In 1964 he was a senior visiting research scientist at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Knox is the author and coauthor of over 100 publica- tions and of nine books. His classical textbook on gas chromatography has been published in Spanish translation, and the book on high-performance liquid chromatography originally published in 1980 by Edinburgh University Press has also been printed in paperback edition. He has re- ceived the Award for Chemical Analysis and Instrumen- tation of the (British) Chemical Society (1977), the An- niversary Chromatography Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1978), and the S. Dal Nogare Award of the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley (USA) (1983). In 1971 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dr. Knox has been a pioneer in both gas and modern liquid chromatography. In gas chromatography, he first applied the technique to the study of combustion reactions and gas kinetics. In high-performance liquid chromatography, his fundamental theoretical studies and the dimensionless ap- proach to the interpretation of plate height and mobile phase velocity leading to the "Knox equation", the devel- opment of improved column packing, and the use of ion- pairing agents are particularly noteworthy. Karel Macek was born in 1928, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He studied at Charles University in Prague, receiving his Ph. D. in 1951. Soon after his graduation he became the head of the Chromatographic Laboratories at the Research Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry in Prague. In 1968 he was appointed an associate professor of analytical chemistry at the Technical University of Pardubice. In 1971, he became head of the Laboratory for Clinical Bio- chemistry at the Third Clinics for Internal Medicine of Charles University Medical School. Since 1977 he has been a senior scientist at the Institute of Physiology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. Dr. Macek ist the author and coauthor of 130 scientific publications and 25 books (in seven languages) on all types of chromatography. In 1961 he established the Chroma- tography Section of the Czechoslovak Chemical Society and has severed as its chairman since its inception. He organized 17 international symposia on various aspects of chromatography. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chromatography-Biomedical Applications, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chromatography and editor of its Bibliography Section. Dr. Macek is one of the pioneers in paper chromatography. He became involved in this technique in 1947 and published a number of fundamental papers in this area. His main interests were in the mechanism of chromatographic separa- tion, in the relationship between chemical structure and chromatographic behavior and he applied the technique for the systematic analysis of drugs. In the last decade he became involved in the chromatographic analysis of com- plex mixtures of biological importance and their delicate changes in pathological situations and ontogeny. 386 Chromatographia Vol. 20, No. 6, June 1985

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Page 1: 1985 Tswett Chromatography Medals awarded to Knox, Macek and Poole

1985 Tswett Chromatography Medals Awarded to Knox, Macek and Poole

The M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medals for 1985 were awarded to John H. Knox, Karel Macek and Colin F. Poole at the 21st International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography which took place June 3 - 6 in Oslo. These scientists were recognized for their contributions to the development o f chromatography.

John Henderson Knox was born in 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated in 1949 from the University of Edinburgh, receiving his B.Sc., and in 1953 from Cambridge University, with a Ph.D. in Chemistry. In 1963 Edinburgh University granted him a D. Sc. degree.

In 1953 Dr. Knox was appointed lecturer at the Depart- ment of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, and has been associated with this school since that time. His present position is Personal Professor of Physical Chemistry, and Director of the Wolfson Liquid Chromatography Unit at the University. In 1964 he was a senior visiting research scientist at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dr. Knox is the author and coauthor of over 100 publica- tions and of nine books. His classical textbook on gas chromatography has been published in Spanish translation, and the book on high-performance liquid chromatography originally published in 1980 by Edinburgh University Press has also been printed in paperback edition. He has re- ceived the Award for Chemical Analysis and Instrumen- tation of the (British) Chemical Society (1977), the An- niversary Chromatography Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1978), and the S. Dal Nogare Award of the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley (USA) (1983). In 1971 he was elected a fel low of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Dr. Knox has been a pioneer in both gas and modern liquid chromatography. In gas chromatography, he first applied the technique to the study of combustion reactions and gas kinetics. In high-performance liquid chromatography, his fundamental theoretical studies and the dimensionless ap- proach to the interpretation of plate height and mobile phase velocity leading to the "Knox equation", the devel- opment of improved column packing, and the use of ion- pairing agents are particularly noteworthy.

Karel Macek was born in 1928, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He studied at Charles University in Prague, receiving his Ph. D. in 1951. Soon after his graduation he became the head of the Chromatographic Laboratories at the Research Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry in Prague. In 1968 he was appointed an associate professor of analytical chemistry at the Technical University of Pardubice. In 1971, he became head of the Laboratory for Clinical Bio- chemistry at the Third Clinics for Internal Medicine of Charles University Medical School. Since 1977 he has been a senior scientist at the Institute of Physiology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague.

Dr. Macek ist the author and coauthor of 130 scientific publications and 25 books (in seven languages) on all types of chromatography. In 1961 he established the Chroma- tography Section of the Czechoslovak Chemical Society and has severed as its chairman since its inception. He organized 17 international symposia on various aspects of chromatography. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chromatography-Biomedical Applications, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chromatography and editor of its Bibliography Section.

Dr. Macek is one of the pioneers in paper chromatography. He became involved in this technique in 1947 and published a number of fundamental papers in this area. His main interests were in the mechanism of chromatographic separa- tion, in the relationship between chemical structure and chromatographic behavior and he applied the technique for the systematic analysis of drugs. In the last decade he became involved in the chromatographic analysis of com- plex mixtures of biological importance and their delicate changes in pathological situations and ontogeny.

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Colin Frank Poole was born in 1950 in Huyton, Lanca- shire, UK. He graduated in 1971 f rom the Univers i ty o f

Leeds w i th a B. Sc. and in 1972 f rom the Univers i ty of

Bristol w i th an M. Sc. in Chemistry. He received his Ph. D.

f rom the Univers i ty o f Keele in 1975 w i th a thesis on the chromatograph ic analysis of insect mou l t ing hormones. In

subsequent years he was associated w i th Aston Univers i ty ,

in B i rmingham, UK, ( 1 9 7 5 - 1 9 7 6 ) , the Univers i ty of Ghent,

Belgium ( 1 9 7 6 - 1 9 7 7 ) , and the Univers i ty of Houston,

USA ( 1 9 7 7 - 1 9 8 0 ) as a postgraduate research associate.

In 1980 he jo ined Wayne State Univers i ty , in Det ro i t ,

Michigan, as an assistant professor in Ana ly t i ca l Chemistry.

Since 1984 he has been an Associate Professor at Wayne

State.

Dr. Poole is the author and coauthor of more than 100

publ icat ions and is the coauthor of the recent book on

Comtempora ry Practice of Chromatography , a general

t e x t b o o k on theo ry of ch romatography and the practice

of its variants. He was an associate editor of Advances in

Chromatography - 1982. He is a member of the Edi tor ia l

Board of the Sympos ium Sect ion of the Journal o f Chro-

matography and a consul t ing ed i to r for the Journal of

L iqu id Chromatography and LC Magazine.

Dr. Poole became active in ch romatography in graduate

school and has cont inued his invo lvement since that t ime.

He had carried ou t signif icant deve lopment wo rk in a

number of f ields par t icu lar ly in selective detectors and der ivat ive f o rma t i on and the deve lopment of therma l l y

stable polar s ta t ionary phases in gas ch romatography and

in h igh-performance th in- layer chromatography .

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