1997 Pittcon Editors' Awards
The August issue of American Environmental Laboratory published the 1997 Pittcon
Editor's Awards following an extensive review of several new product introductions by
manufacturers in the analytical instrumentation arena. In the article entitled
"Separation Science at Pittcon '97," three vendors were singled out for their
cutting-edge innovative technologies. After voting on 27 nominations by a committee of 15
distinguished editors, the chips fell this way:
Pittcon Editors' Gold Award
Micromass, Inc. for its platform
ICP system
Pittcon Editors' Silver Award
Hewlett-Packard for its Gene Array
optical reader
Pittcon Editors' Bronze Award
PerSeptive Biosystems for its
Mariner LC-MS system
Other vendors receiving notable mentions with significant vote totals included:
Beckman Instruments (Biomek), Cohesive Biotechnologies Inc (Turbo-Flow Chromatography),
Hewlitt-Packard (LC-MSD), Milestone MLS (Ethos), Ocean Optics (S-2000), Sensar Division of
Larson-Davis (Jaguar CE-TOF-MS), ThermoQuest (UV6000-LP), Varian Associates (Spectr AA-220
FS) and Yokogawa Corporation of America (PT-1000).
Take the advice of the Pittcon Editors who put considerable time and effort into producing
this list of vendors that have distinguished themselves far and above the competition.
You'll have to forgive us for not noting who wasn't worthy of inclusion on this select
list.... they didn't even muster a notable mention!
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