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Anachem Award to Walter Slavin

WALTER SLAVIN, Editor of Spectrochimica Acta, Part B, has been elected to receive the 1988 Anachem Award. The Award will be presented during the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACCS) Meeting in Boston, MA, in the week of 30 October till 4 November 1988. The presentation will take place during a session “Frontiers in Atomic Spectrometry” of the Anachem Award Symposium.

WALTER SLAVIN has spent all of his career in the development and application of instrumentation for chemistry and physics. He has led Perkin-Elmer’s entry into the field of atomic absorption spectroscopy and has contributed extensively to the development of atomic absorption techniques and applications. He has also published widely in instrumentation and applications of fluorescence spectroscopy, far U.V. spectroscopy, chromatography and clinical chemistry.

His book, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, John Wiley, Interscience (1968), has been through a second printing and a revision. It was translated into four languages. A second book, Graphite Furnace AAS-A Source Book was published in 1984. He is the author of more than 100 papers in the field of analytical chemistry and analytical instrumentation.

He is North American Editor for Spectrochimicu Acta, Part B, and is Editor of several Special Issues of that journal. One of these commemorated 25 years of Furnace AAS and a second collected the Invited Papers from the CSI meeting in Toronto in the summer of 1987. He was a member of the Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Progress in Analytical Spectroscopy. He founded the journal that has since become Atomic Spectroscopy.

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880 Anachem Award to Walter Slavin

He organized the Applied Research Department at Perkin-Elmer, developing improved instrumentation and applications in atomic spectroscopy, liquid chromatography and fluorescence. He is now a Senior Scientist at Perkin-Elmer specializing in atomic spectroscopy. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Council at Perkin-Elmer.

He is a member of the Optical Society of America, Past President of the Southwest Connecticut Section of the OSA, and a member of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and the American Chemical Society. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Finnigan Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.

He is a graduate of the University of Maryland in physics and math in 1949. He is part of a dynasty in atomic spectroscopy since his father was an emission spectroscopist at the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the U.S. Geological Survey. He spent many afternoons during high school assisting in the reading of photographic plates with a Gaertner Densitometer of spectra from a large Baird spectrograph. WALTER SLAVIN’S son performed atomic absorption analyses in a graduate program at university. His wife is the well-known director of atomic spectroscopy activities at Perkin-Elmer.