Ronald E. Majors, a senior chemist at Agilent and LCGC's "Column Watch" and "Sample Preperation Perspectives" columnist, received the Chromatographic Society?s 2007 Martin Gold Medal at HPLC 2008.
Ronald E. Majors, a senior chemist at Agilent and LCGC's "Column Watch" and "Sample Preperation Perspectives" columnist, received the Chromatographic Society's 2007 Martin Gold Medal at HPLC 2008. The award, named after the Nobel Prize winner A.J.P. Martin, was presented by Professor W. John Lough, president of the Chromatographic Society of the United Kingdom.
Majors has contributed significantly to separation science research through the years, including his work in HPLC column technology, particle size studies, packing methodologies, and chemically bonded phases. He was the first to efficiently pack 5-m particles into high performance columns and was responsible for the introduction of the first commercial microparticulate column.
Best of the Week: What’s New in MS, 2024 Young Chemist Award Winner
March 22nd 2024This week, LCGC International published a variety of articles on the hottest topics in chromatography and beyond. Below, we’ve highlighted some of the most popular articles, according to our readers. Happy reading!
Inside the Laboratory: The Schug Group at the University of Texas at Arlington
March 22nd 2024In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Kevin Schug, PhD, a full professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington, discusses his laboratory’s group work in environmental monitoring around water and soil quality near oil and gas extraction, using techniques such as liquid chromatography (LC), gas chromatography (GC), supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), and coupling these techniques with mass spectrometry (MS).
Cloruson and Related Substances Studied Using Original Ion-Pair UHPLC Method
March 19th 2024In a recent study out of Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc. in North Brunswick, New Jersey, scientists investigated cloruson and its related substances using an original ion-paired reversed phase ultraperformance liquid chromatography (IP-UHPLC) method.