Dr. Milton Lee Wins Giorgio Nota Award

Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Dr. Milton Lee for Winning the 2019 Giorgio Nota Award. This award was instituted in honor of Giorgio Nota who first introduced open tubular liquid chromatography. The Giorgio Nota Award is presented to a scientist in recognition of significant achievement in capillary liquid chromatography.

Part of Dr. Lee's research focuses on the development of new instrumentation and supporting technology in the fields of capillary and micro/nano fluidic separations and mass spectrometry. He presented the key note lecture at the May 2018 International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and highlighted the current mobile chromatography instrument trend. Mobile chromatography is the separation of substance mixtures into their components during the liquid or gas phase. Professor Lee is developing an instrument small enough to comfortably fit in a person's hand, that can be used for point detection of chemical warfare agents and environmental chemicals. The device is developed to be battery operated which allows for military and other official personal to detect and measure dangerous chemicals on the spot. Lee is also working on minimizing the instrument's power requirements, increasing the ion trapping volume, and decreasing overall instramentation size. 

We are please to commend Dr. Lee for his outstanding achievements.