Tswett Medal

1988 Tswett Chromatography Medals Awarded to Brown, Bruner, and Okuyama The M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medals for 1988 were awarded to Phyllis Brown, Fabrizio Bruner, and Tsuneo Okuyarna at the 25th International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography which took place August 29 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. These scientists were recognized for their contributions to the development of chromatography,

Phyllis R. Brown was born on March 16, 1924, in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her B. S. in Chemistry at George Washington University, in Washington, DC. After an educational hiatus of eighteen years, she returned to school and received her Ph. D. in chemistry in 1968 from Brown University, Providence, RI. She did post- doctoral workin the Pharmacology Section at Brown for three years and stayed on in that section as instructor and then as an assistant research professor. In 1973 she

Phyllis R. Brown

became an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, in Kingston, RI; in 1977she was promoted to associate professor, and in 1980, to a full professor. In 1983, Dr. Brown was a visiting professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; recently she was awardedaFullbright Fellowshiptoreturnto Israel to continue her research there.

In 1985 Dr. Brown was awarded the Scholarly Achievement Award for Excel- lence in Research at the University of Rhode Island, and also named Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women of South County, Rhode Island. In addition she was given in 1984 the Com- munity Service Award by the Providence Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women in 1984.

Dr. Brown is the author and coauthor of over 100scientific publications. She wrote the first book on biomedical and biochem- ical applications of HPLC (Academic Press, 1973) and was the seniorauthorofthe first book devoted entirely to reversed-phase HPLC (Wiley, 1982). Both these books were translated into Japanese. She edited a book on HPLC in nucleic acid research (M. Dekker, 1984) and is, together with J. Calvin Giddings and Eli Grushka, the editor of the Advances in Chromatography series published by M. Dekker. She is on the editorialadvisory boardsofanumberof scientific journals.

Dr. Brown has been a pioneer in the appli- cation of HPLC to biomedical research and has made outstanding contributions in the development of HPLC assaysfor biochem- ical research and the clinical laboratory. She is best known for her work in develop- ing assays for nucleic acid constituents in biological samples. The HPLC methods shedeveloped in 1970fortheseparationof nucleotides in cell extracts are now the standard procedures used by biomedical researchers studying metabolism in normal subjects and patients with various diseases. She was a leader in systematiz- ing methods for the identification of bio- logically important peaks and specifically, she developed the highly selective and sensitive enzyme peak shift technique for the identification of peaks in chromato- grams of biological matrices. She was the first to use reversed-phase HPLCmethods to determine concentrations of nucleo- tides and their bases in physiological fluids and established a range of normal values for these compounds in blood fluids.

Fabrizio Bruner was born on February 25, 1935, in Rome, Italy. He studied at the University of Rome, receiving his doctorate in chemistry in 1960 with a thesis on capil- lary gas chromatography and FID detection. After one year of postdoctoral fellowship at the university he joined the analytical-chemistry group of the Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.). Be- tween 1966 and 1968 he was a research

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associate at the Mass Spectrometry Labo- ratory of Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, in Cambridge, MA (USA). Returning to Italy he joined the Air Pollution Research Institute of the C.N.R. as a chief researcher and was promoted in 1974 to the position of the research director of the Institute. In 1970 he became “Libero Docente” in analytical chemistry at the University of Rome and in 1975 he was appointed as professor at the University of Urbino in charge of physico-chemistry and analyt- ical chemistry. In 1960 Dr. Bruner won a national competition for full professorship. Presently he is Professor at the University of Urbino and director of the Institute of Chemical Sciences of the University.

Dr. Bruner is a member of the Steering Committee of the Division of Analytical Chemistry, SocietaChimica Italiana, and of the scientific committees of the Bureau Communitaire de Reference of the Euro- pean Community. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Chromatographia and Annali di Chimica. In 1980 he received the M. S. Tswett Memorial Medal of the All- Union Scientific Council of Chromato- graphy, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Dr. Bruner is the author and coauthor of close to 100 scientific papers.

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Dr. Bruner pioneered in the development of graphitized carbon blacks as stationary phases for chromatography and on the study of the chemical and physical properties of adsorbents, in the use of gas chromatography and the combination of gas chromatography and mass spectro- metry for environmental analysis.

Tsuneo Okuyama was born on May 10, 1928, in Osaka, Japan. He studied bio- chemistry at Osaka University receiving his B. S. in 1953, and his Dr. Sci. degree in 1959. In 1958 he joined the Department of Che- mistry of Tokyo Metropolitan University as an instructor; he was appointed as an assistant professor in 1959 and then, in 1973, as a full professor of biochemistry. In 1959-1 961 he was a research associate at the Foundation of Experimental Biology, in Worcester, MA, USA; in 1971 he was a visiting professor at Uppsala University, in Sweden; in 1972 a visiting scientist at the

1982 the award of the Electrophoresis, Society of Japan. He is the member of the editorial advisory boards of a number of Japanese scientific journals and the associate editor of Electrophoresis, the journal of the International Electrophoresis Society. He is currently chairman of the Division of Liquid Chromatography of the Japanese Society for Analytical Chemistry, and of various scientific committees in Japan. He is also councillor of the Electro- phoresis Society of Japan, the Japanese Biochemical Society and the Japanese Neurochemical Society. He is the author and coauthor of over 250 scientific papers and a number of books.

Dr. Okuyama pioneered in the develop- ment of two-dimensional electrophoresis and its applications for the analysis of plasma proteins. He has studied the amino acid sequence in a number of proteins, the use of isotachophoresis, isoelectric focusing, and high-resolution liquid chro-

Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, in Munich, Germany; and in 1987 a visiting professor at the Department of Biotechno- logy of Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

Dr.Okuyama received in 1963 the award of Toyo Rayon Science Foundation, and in

matography in the analysis of proteins and peptides.

HRC & CC congratulates

Alexander Abramovich Zhukhovitsky

on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He was born on September 5,1908, obtained his doctorate in Chemical Sciences in 1938, and was appointed Professor in 1940. His main fields of research are solution theory, surface phenomena, and chromatography. He is one of the inventors of various chromatographic methods, namely chromathermography, vacanto-chromatography, and chroma- distillation. He has authored 450 papers and 8 books including a standard workon gas chromatogra- phy written with Nikolay Turkeltaub.

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