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Show Pleasant Grove resident, BYU chemist receives Am. Chemical Society honor I Milton L. Lee, Pleasant Grove, a t lessor of chemistry at BYU, was Scognized recently by the Lrican Chemical Society for Significant contributions to modern chromatography." ?. Lee'S photo and a story on his ! many accomplishments were f- Iblisned in the Nov. 9 issue of the JcS publication, "Chemical and J Engineering News." ,.He has managed not only to discover new and interesting b scientific facts," the article states, I l,ut to develop and transform these jl acts into practical and far-reaching ;i anpUcations." il Chromatography is the separation t of complex mixtures that occurs h during flow through a special J medium- Lee, who occupies the H. Tracy Hall professorship at BYU, J has headed a research group that developed many of the methods, materials and instrumentation that are now used worldwide in this field. Lee pioneered the development of capillary supercritical fluid J chromatography (SFC) , a branch of f separation science, following it through its creation, development and commercialization. SFC iT an important development because it can be used to isolate and identify complex compounds in industrial chem.cals, drugs, environment pollutants and other materials tha are difficult to anlyze using traditional techniques. 8 The researcher holds a patent on capillary SFC and has several other patents pending on related technology. He has written more than 220 scientific publications, including two books. He also serves on the editorial advisory boards of three international scientific trade journals. Other awards he has received include the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award one of the first Utah Governor's Medals for Science and Technology and the M.S. Tswett Chromatography Medal. Lee, a native of Hyrum graduated from South Cache High School in 1965, attended Utah State University for two years and received a bachelor's degree at the University of Utah and his doctoral Milton L. Lee degree at Indiana University. He did post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the BYU faculty in 1976. He is married to Susan Hintze, a USU graduate in medical technology, and they have four children. |