Howard V.Malmstadt(1922–2003)

Howard V. Malmstadtpassed away on July 7,2003, in Kona, Hawaii.He was 81 years old.Malmstadt was born in 1922 in Mari-onette, Wis., and earned his bachelor’sdegree at the University of Wisconsin in1943. As an ensign in the U.S. Navy, hewas chosen for an elite program to studyelectronics and the new technology called“radar” at Princeton University and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.Subsequently, he served as a radar officerin the Pacific during World War II.

Malmstadt earned his M.S. in chem-istry in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1950 underWalter J. Blaedel and accepted a positionat the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in 1951. Malmstadt was a pi-oneer in automated titrations, null-pointpotentiometry, kinetic methods, time-resolved emission spectroscopy, laser spec-troscopy, automated atomic absorptionand fluorescence spectroscopy, automatedcentrifugal fast analyzers, and microcom-puter-based analytical instrumentation.

While at Illinois, Malmstadt was a ma-jor inspiration to many students, postdocs,and colleagues (Anal. Chem. 1988, 60,87 A). “He was the single most influentialperson in my life,” stated Harry Pardue.At one time, more than 25 of his Ph.D.students and postdocs were in academia.

Malmstadt and Chris Enke developedthe first Electronics for Scientists courseand published the first book in this area in

1963. Several hundred universities aroundthe world taught courses based on theirbooks. In his 2001 address at the Pitts-burgh Conference, Larry Faulkner, presi-dent of the University of Texas, Austin,stated, “Howard Malmstadt was at least adecade ahead of others in understandingthe great qualitative changes that could

occur in analytical chemistry by taking ad-vantage, first, of the advances in micro-electronics and, later, by the new technol-ogy resting on microprocessors.”

Malmstadt received the ACS Divisionof Analytical Chemistry (DAC) Award inChemical Instrumentation (1963), theDonald P. Eckman Award of the Instru-ment Society of America (1970), the ACSAward in Analytical Chemistry (1976),the ISCO Award (1980), the DAC’s J.Calvin Giddings Award (1984), theAnachem Award (1987), the Maurice F.Hasler Award of the Society for AppliedSpectroscopy (1995), and several otherhonors. For the past 25 years, he hadbeen associated with the University of theNations, a missions-oriented, internation-al, nondenominational university that heco-founded in 1978. a

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Murray’s quadThe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC–CH), will name part of its new Physical ScienceComplex after Royce Murray, renowned analyticalchemist and Editor of Analytical Chemistry. The majoroutdoor area will be called the Royce Murray Quad-rangle, making it one of only three named outdoorplazas on the campus. In addition to his roles as sci-entist, teacher, and editor, Murray has led the plan-

ning of the $205 million complex, which will house five departments, including chemistry, and iscurrently under construction. Murray has been a member of the UNC–CH faculty since 1960.