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Ellis R. Lippincott Award
The Ellis R. Lippincott Award is awarded annually to recognize an individual that has made significant contributions to the field of vibrational spectroscopy. The award was jointly established in 1975 by The Optical Society (OSA), The Coblentz Society, and The Society for Applied Spectroscopy to honor the unique contributions of Professor Ellis R. Lippincott. Among other contributions, Professor Lippincott was one of the developers of the diamond anvil cell which is widely employed used in high pressure research, and because innovation was a hallmark of Lippincott's work, this quality must also be demonstrated by candidates for the award.
2023 Recipient
Peter Griffiths
Peter Griffiths was born in England and spent the first 25 years of his life there. After receiving a doctorate in Physical Chemistry from Oxford University in 1967, he spent the next two years doing postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland under the supervision of Ellis Lippincott. After brief stints with Digilab in Cambridge, MA and Sadtler Research Labs in Philadelphia, PA, he joined the faculty of Ohio University, reaching the rank of Distinguished Professor. After ten years, he moved to the University of California, Riverside before accepting the chairmanship of the Chemistry Department of the University of Idaho, from which he retired in 2008.
His principal research area has been analytical vibrational spectroscopy with particular emphasis on FT-IR spectroscopy with the occasional foray into Raman spectroscopy and gas, liquid and supercritical fluid chromatography. Among the specific topics that his research group has worked on are diffuse reflection spectroscopy, open-path atmospheric monitoring, and the interface of FT-IR spectrometers with various types of chromatographs (GC, HPLC and SFC). He has served as president of both the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. He served on several editorial boards, including more than 30 years with Applied Spectroscopy. He was an Associate Editor of that journal from 1981 to 2009, the Editor-in-Chief from 2009 to 2012 and the Editor from 2012 to 2018.
He has co-authored over 300 papers and has written, co-authored or edited eleven books on various aspects of vibrational spectroscopy. He taught in a week-long course on the interpretation of IR and Raman spectra for over 30 years and acted as a consultant to several companies, law firms and organizations. His work has been recognized by several awards including the Coblentz Award (1975), the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Award (1985), the New York SAS Gold Medal in Spectroscopy (1995), the Fritz Prëgl Medal of Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry (1995), the Bomem Michelson Award (2003), the Gerald S. Birth Award for Outstanding Work in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (2004) and the Anachem Award (2012). His selection as this year’s Lippincott Awardee represents a marvelous way to ride off into the sunset.
Nominations
For more information on the Lippincott Award, visit https://www.coblentz.org/awards/the-lippincott-award/.
Past recipients
2022 Martin Zanni
2021 Rohit Bhargava
2020 Volker Deckert Coblentz
2019 Ji-Xin Cheng SAS
2018 Peter Hamm OSA
2017 Roberto D. Merlin Coblentz
2016 Thomas Elsaesser SAS
2015 Dana D. Dlott OSA
2014 Andrei Tokmakoff Coblentz
2013 Xiaoliang Sunney Xie SAS
2012 Keith A. Nelson OSA
2011 Isao Noda Coblentz
2010 Martin Moskovits SAS
2009 Michael D. Fayer OSA
2008 Richard P. Van Duyne Coblentz
2007 Jonathon Tennyson SAS
2006 Hai-Lung Dai OSA
2005 Jaan Laane Coblentz
2004 Richard Mathies SAS
2003 Shaul Mukamel OSA
2002 Sanford A. Asher Coblentz
2001 W. Lester S. Andrews SAS
2000 Donald Levy OSA
1999 Mitsuo Tasumi Coblentz
1998 Takeshi Oka SAS
1997 Robin Hochstrasser OSA
1996 Giuseppe Zerbi Coblentz
1995 Giocinto Scoles SAS
1994 Herbert L. Strauss OSA
1993 John Rabolt Coblentz
1992 Richard Saykally SAS
1991 No Award Given
1990 Robert W. Field OSA
1989 Marilyn Jacox Coblentz
1988 Andreas Albrecht SAS
1987 C. Bradley Moore OSA
1986 Wolfgang Kaiser Coblentz
1985 Ira W. Levin SAS
1984 Jon Hougen OSA
1983 John Overend Coblentz
1982 Michael Delhays SAS
1981 Ian M. Mills OSA
1980 George C. Pimentel Coblentz
1979 E. Bright Wilson SAS
1978 Bryce L. Crawford OSA
1977 Lionel J. Bellamy Coblentz
1976 Richard Lord SAS