NESAS and SAS Lester W. Strock Award


The Lester W. Strock Award is given by the New England Section of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy in recognition of a selected publication of substantive research in/or application of analytical atomic spectrochemistry in the fields of earth science, life sciences, or stellar and cosmic sciences. More details on the award are available from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.


2025 Recipient

Dr. James Ranville

Dr Ranville is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado School of Mines and is the director of the Geochemistry Interdisciplinary graduate degree program. His main research interest is in environmental geochemistry as it relates to trace metals in human-disturbed ecosystems, environmental nanoparticles and colloids, natural organic matter, and aquatic ecotoxicology. His postdoctoral work at Monash University focused on coupling field flow fractionation to ICP-MS. In the past decade the development and application of single particle ICP-MS has been a core research area of his group.



Past Recipients

2024 Benjamin Thomas Manard

2023 Maria Montes-Bayón

2022 Igor Gornushkin

2021 Uwe Karst

2020  Heidi Goenaga-Infante

2019 Mike Angel

2018  Javier Laserna

2017 Frank Vanhaecke

2016 Raymond Arvidson

2015 R. Kenneth Marcus

2014 Steven Ray - Interview with Steven Ray by Spectroscopy Magazine

2013 Richard Russo - Interview with Russo

2012 Ralph E. Sturgeon - Interview with Sturgeon

2011 David W. Hahn

2010 Kay Niemax

2009 Nico Omenetto

2008 Annemie Bogaerts

2007 Detlef Günther

2006 Paul Farnsworth

2005 Richard Russo

2004 James D. Winefordner

2003 Ramon Barnes

2002 Julian Tyson

2001 John Olesik

2000 Max Diem

1999 D. Bruce Chase

1998 Sandford Asher

1997 Therese M. Cotton

1996 Richard A. Keller

1995 Michael D. Morris

1994 Richard F. Browner, Guangxuan Zhu

1993 Willard W. Harrison

1992 G. Hieftje

1991 M. Bonner Denton

1990 Edward S. Yeung

1989 Gary Horlick, Martha A. Vaughn, S.H. Tan

1988 Thomas C. O'Haver

1987 Richard Sacks, J.M. Goldberg, R.J. Collins, S.Y. Suh

1986 Robert S. Houck, Velmer A. Fassell, Gerald D. Flesch, Harry J. Svec, Alan L. Gray, Charles E. Taylor

1985 C.R. Blakley, M.L. Vestal

1984 Gary M. Hieftje, Stanley B. Smith, Jr.

1983 M. Barber, R.S. Bardoli, R. D. Sedgwick, A.N. Tyler

1982 Charles Wilkins

1981 David M. Hercules

1980 John P. Walters


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