Alan Marshall To Receive 2002 American Chemical Society Award In Analytical Chemistry
August 29, 2001
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Janet Patten
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Alan G. Marshall, Kasha Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University and Director of the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, will receive the next American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry, sponsored by Fisher Scientific Company. The award recognizes Dr. Marshall "for his pioneering comprehensive development of theory, instrumentation, and analytical applications of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry." Prior winners of this award include eight members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The award, consisting of $5,000 and an etching, will be presented at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Orlando, FL, April 7-11, 2002.
Dr. Marshall's research group holds all of the current world records for high-resolution mass analysis, a technique that simultaneously separates and identifies up to several thousand chemical constituents. More than 360 instruments based on his three patents and 320 refereed journal papers have been installed worldwide, representing a capital investment of more than $150 million in today's dollars.
During his eight years at FSU, Dr. Marshall has won an astonishing eight national and international awards. Of those, seven were firsts for FSU and four were firsts for the State of Florida. His three national American Chemical Society awards are also a first for the State of Florida. He has brought in $15 million in external funding to FSU/NHMFL as a principal investigator, plus another $6 million as a contributor to grants for other FSU investigators, and is one of the co-principal investigators for the NHMFL's current $117.5 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant. Before joining the faculty at FSU, Dr. Marshall held academic appointments at the University of British Columbia in Canada and The Ohio State University.
