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SAC 80: Plenary Lecturers Professor T. P. Whitehead T. P. Whitehead, Professor of Clinical Chemis- try and Chairman of Pathological Studies a t the University of Birmingham Medical School, is Consultant Clinical Chemist to the Birming- ham Health District and Director of the Wolfson Research Laboratories, Queen Eliza- beth Medical Centre, Birmingham. He is

Professor Whitehead

Chairman of the Standards and Quality Control Advisory Group of the Department of Health and Social Security, and is a Consultant to the World Health Organization.

Professor Whitehead will deliver the first Plenary Lecture at SAC 80, entitled “Assessing the Analytical Quality of the Clinical Labora- tory,” on Monday morning, July 21st.

Professor H. V. Malmstadt Howard V. Malmstadt was born in Marinette, Wisconsin, USA, in 1922 and received a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1943. He studied Naval Radar Electronics at Princeton, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology and Bell Laboratories. From 1944 to 1946 he was a Radar Naval Officer for a division of destroyers in the Pacific.

After the War he returned to the University of Wisconsin for graduate work and received the MS degree in 1948 and PhD in Chemistry in 1950. The following year he remained a t the University of Wisconsin as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1951, and was promoted to full Professor in 1961. He was Guggenheim Fellow in 1960. In 1963 he was presented with the American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Instrumentation. In 1970 he received the

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Eckman award in Education from the Instru- mentation Society of America, and in 1976 the ACS Analytical Chemistry Fischer Award. In 1978 Dr. Malmstadt received the Outstanding Analytical Chemist Award of the Pittsburgh Conference, and also a Fulbright - Hays Dis- tinguished Professorship Award. In 1980 the ISCO award for major contributions in biochemical instrumentation was presented to him. He was the 1964 National Chairman of the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society. He has served on the Advisory Council of College Chemistry, and several other advisory boards, including the National Science Foundation, National Research Council and the National Institute of Health.

references in colleges, universities, technical schools and industries throughout the world.

In 1978 Dr. Malmstadt resigned his full-time professorship at the University of Illinois in order to devote most of his time to work on the planning for the new Pacific and Asia Christian University in Kona, Hawaii. As Dean of the College of Science and Technology he is particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary programmes and new courses and curricula that will prepare students spiritually, intellectually and culturally to serve throughout the world.

Dr. Malmstadt’s remaining research pro- grammes at the University of Illinois include work in photoacoustic spectroscopy, stopped- flow and centrifugal chemical analysers, labora- tory automation and clinical methodology.

His Plenary Lecture, “Analytical Instru- mentation for the 1980s,” will be given on Tuesday morning, July 22nd.

Dr S. Greenfield Although awarded the degree of PhD by Loughborough University only last December, Stanley Greenfield does not conform to the typical image of a recently capped doctor. The discrepancy is apparent in age, appearance, tastes, temperament and research experience.

No one has worked longer in the field of developing inductively coupled plasmas as sources for spectrochemical analysis, and for more than 10 years his laboratory has used these sources for the simultaneous multi- element analysis of many thousands of real

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His major areas of research have been in time-resolved spectroscopy, short-time pheno- mena in sparks, laser plumes and flames, kinetic methods of analysis, automation of scientific instrumentation, and clinical/analyti- cal methodology. He is the author or co- author of more than 150 technical publications. Nine books include the pioneering “Electronics for Scientists,” followed by the subsequent texts “Digital Electronics, I’ “Electronic Measurements for Scientists,” “Computer Logic, ” “Analog Measurements and Trans- ducers, ” “Control of Electrical Quantities,” “Optimization of Electronic Measurements, ” “Experiments in Digital and Analog Measure- ments” and “Digital and Analog Data Con- versions.” These books have introduced new concepts in electronics and instrumentation education for scientists and engineers in all disciplines, and have been used as texts and Dr. Greenfield

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samples, with the wide variety that might be expected to arise in the hurly-burly of chemical industry. As to his temperament, it might be described by an inorganic chemist as mercurial or by an organic chemist as of low flash-point. Indeed, as one of his colleagues, this biographer has certain feelings of sympathy with his academic examiners.

Trained originally as a metallurgist, Stan Greenfield changed to analytical chemistry while working with GKN , and joined Albright and Wilson in 1951. As Manager of Analytical Services, he has been responsible for the intro- duction of many instrumental techniques with- out which it would be impossible to achieve the productivity demanded by industry.

He has recently retired as a Vice-president of the Analytical Division of the Chemical Society and is a serving member of its Honours, Programmes, Analytical Methods, SAC 80 Steering and Trust Advisory Committees. He has served as Chairman and Honorary Secretary of the Midlands Region and of the Special Techniques Group. He was awarded the SAC Gold Medal in 1979 in recognition of his contri- butions to Analytical Chemistry. In the last few years he has lectured on plasma sources in America, Australia and South Africa as well as Europe. A further biography appeared in the January 1979 issue of Proceedings (pp. 1-3).

Dr. Greenfield will present his Plenary Lecture, entitled “Plasma Spectroscopy Comes of Age,” on Wednesday morning, July 23rd.

Professor G.-E. Baiulescu George-Emil Baiulescu was born in 1931 in BraSov, Romania, and graduated from the Department of Chemistry a t the University of Bucharest in 1954. Between 1954 and 1958 he was a researcher a t the Centre of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the Romanian Academy of Science, and since 1958 he has

been Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Analytical Chemistry a t the University of Bucharest and, a t present, the National Insti- tute of Chemistry.

Professor Baiulescu

He obtained a PhD in 1958 after graduate studies in the field of organic reagents, and a DSc in 1969. He has published over 90 papers on the utilisation of organic reagents in rare- element determinations, stationary phases in gas chromatography and ion-selective elec- trodes. Three books have been published on trace analysis, stationary phases in gas chro- matography and organic applications of ion- selective membrane electrodes and one on education in analytical chemistry is currently in the press.

Professor Baiulescu’s Plenary Lecture on “Moral Ageing of Analytical Methods” will be given on Friday morning, July 25th.

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