1986 Tswett Chromatography Medals Awarded to Cramers and Karger The M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medals for 1986 were awarded to Carolus A. Cramers and Barry L. Karger at the 22nd International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography which took place September 15-18 in Houston, Texas. These scientists were recognized for their contributions to the development of chromatography.

Carolus Alfonsus Crarners was born oln September 4, 1935, in Boda, The Nether- lands. After studying at the College of Chemical Engineering, in Heerlen, he entered Eindhoven University of Technol- ogy where he received an M.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1963, and a technical doctorate in 1967. After graduation hse spent one year at the University of California in Los Angeles. Returning to Eindhoven as an assistant professor, he was appointed an associate professor in analytical chemistry in 1974, and a full professorin 1978. Currently he isthe chaiir- man of the Group of Instrumental Analysis at the University.

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Dr. Crarners is currently serving as a member of the Committee on Contract Research and the Central Committee om Research of Eindhoven University, and is the chairman of the Committee on Chemical Research of the University. He is the chairman of the Dutch Working Party on Analytical Separation Methods, member of the Executive Board of thie Analytical Section of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (serving as its secre- tary), and vice-chairman of the Chemists' Forum in Eindhoven, and is serving as a titular member of the International Union of Pure &Applied Chemistry (I.U.P.A.C.). He is amemberofthe Editorial Advisory Board of

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Chromatographia. Dr. Crarners has served on the Scientific and Organizing Commit- tees of the First through Seventh Inter- national Symposia on Capillary Chromato- graphy held in Hindeiang, Germany (1975 through 1983), Riva del Garda, Italy (1983 and 1985), and Gifu, Japan (1986), the Third International Symposium on Analyti- cal Pyrolysis (Amsterdam, 1976), and the Eleventh International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography (Amster- dam, 1977). He has received in 1979 the Anniversary Chromatography Medal of the All-Union Scientific Council on Chromato- graphy of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.

Dr. Cramers is the author and coauthor of over 100 scientific and technical publica- tions. Under his direction eleven Ph. D. the- ses have been prepared at Eindhoven University of Technology in the fields of chromatography and isotachophoresis.

Dr. Crarners became involved in chroma- tography in graduate school, underthe late Professor A.I.M. Keulemans. His doctorate thesis was entitled "Some Problems Encountered in High-Resolution Gas Chro- matography" and reported on the effect of sample introduction on capillary column performance, on the development of novel inlet systems, and on studies on pyrolysis - gas chromatography with special respect to the identification of unknown corn- pounds by this technique. He has been active in chromatography ever since; his major fields of interest are open-tubular (capillary) columns particularly columns with small diameter, optimization of the analytical conditions, and high-speed chromatography, micro-packed columns, pyrolysis - gas chromatography of hydro- carbons, and the combined use of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.

Barry Lloyd Karger was born on April 2, 1939, In Boston, Massachusetts. He grad- uated in 1960 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a B.S. degree in Chemistry, and in 1963 from Cornell University with a Ph. D. in Analytical Chemistry. He joined Northeastern University of Boston, Mass., in 1963 as an assistant professor and rose to the

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rank of professor in 1972. In 1985, he was appointed to the James L. Waters Chair in Analytical Chemistry. In 1973, Dr. Karger was a founder of the Institute of Chemical Analysis at Northeastern University which, in 1983, was renamed the Barnett Institute of Chemical Analysis and Materials Science. Dr. Karger has been the director of the Institute since its inception. Today, this Institute consists of a large number of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and seniorstaff, with research activities in a broad range of chromatographic areas.

Dr. Karger is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Analytical Biochem- istry, Analytical Letters, Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Chromatographia. He has also served on the Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry. He has received considerable professional recognition in- cluding a Sloan Fellowship, the Robert Klein Memorial Lectureship of North- eastern University, the S. Dal Nogare Award of the Delaware Valley Chromato- graphy Forum (1975), the Anniversary Chromatography Medal of the All-Union Scientific Council on Chromatography of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (1978), and the American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography (1 982).

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Dr. Karger is the author and coauthor of over 140 publications. With Cs. Horvath and L. R. Snyder, he is the coauthor of the widely used graduate text “An Introduction to Separation Science”. At Northeastern University, approximately 50 graduate students have obtained Ph. D.’s under his direction.

Dr. Karger has been a pioneer in modern high-performance liquid chromatography, He has been active over his career with manipulating chemical equilibria in both the mobile and stationary phases to achieve selectivity optimization. He was the first to show that chiral species can be separated in reversed-phase liquid chro-

matography, using chiral additives to the mobile phase. Currently, his focus is on the application of HPLC to the biological sciences, with a special interest in bio- polymerseparations. His research involves the design of stationary phases and the influence of those phases on the three- dimensional structure of biopolymers.

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