Ron Majors is the 2020 winner of the Dal Nogare Award, which is presented by the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley. This award is given to an outstanding scientist in the field of chromatography. Awardees are selected on the basis of their contributions to the fundamental understanding of the chromatographic process.
Ron Majors is the 2020 winner of the Dal Nogare Award, which is presented by the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley. This award is given to an outstanding scientist in the field of chromatography. Awardees are selected on the basis of their contributions to the fundamental understanding of the chromatographic process.
Majors retired from Agilent Technologies, where he worked in sample preparation and column technology. He is a former LCGC columnist, writing both the “Column Watch” and “Sample Prep Perspectives” columns for LCGC North America for more than 30 years Currently a member of LCGC’s editorial board, Majors has authored more than 150 publications on high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), sample preparation, and surface chemistry.
He received his B.S. from California State University, Fresno, and his PhD from Purdue University. His PhD thesis was on molecular-imprinted phases for chromatography and sample preparation. Majors served as Chairman of the HPLC ’86 and Anabiotec ’90 conferences and on the Instrumentation Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry.
Transferring Methods to Compact and Portable HPLC
February 14th 2024The current trend in laboratory equipment design is the miniaturization of laboratory instruments. Smaller-scale HPLC instruments offer benefits that cannot be matched by analytical-scale equipment, especially in the areas of portability, reduced fluid volumes, and reduced operating costs. Yet, the miniaturization of laboratory equipment has brought with it a unique set of challenges, including transferring methods to compact LC. Capillary LC expands the use of LC to applications not currently done using conventional LC in a wide array of application areas, including pharmaceutical, food and beverage, petrochemical, environmental, and oil and gas. Greg Ward, Axcend’s CEO wrote, “Customers want an HPLC system with a small footprint, low flow rates and green chemistry.” Join his podcast where he shares method transfer in these application areas.