Dal Nogare Award 2008 Recipient

John G.Dorsey

John G. Dorsey, the Katherine Blood Hoffman Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, will receive the prestigious Dal Nogare Award for 2008, presented by The Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley (CFDV), for his outstanding work in the field of chromatography. Awardees are chosen on the basis of his or her contributions to the fundamental understanding of the chromatographic process. Established in honor of Stephen Dal Nogare, who died in 1968 after serving six months as President of the Forum, the CFDV Award recognizes Dr. Dorsey's research and teaching accomplishments in liquid chromatography.

Professor Dorsey received his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry in 1979, under T.W. Glibert at the University of Cincinnati, and then spent ten years on the faculty at the University of Florida. He returned to Cincinnati as Professor in 1989 and moved to Florida State University as Chemistry Department Chair (1994-1999).

Dorsey's research interests are in the areas of fundamental liquid chromatography, separation science, and old Bordeaux wines. He has about 130 publications in these areas, and he serves as Editor for Journal of Chromatography A. He has graduated 52 Ph.D. students, and recently received the 2004 Florida Section Award of the American Chemical Society, the 2004 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Achievements in Separation Science, and the 2006 American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography.

Dorsey's best-known work, the development of the Foley­-Dorsey equation
in 1981 is the most accurate manual method far the determination of column
efficiency. He has concentrated on the use of micelles as eluent modifiers for
reverse-phase HPLC and investigated the retention process in RPLC using
solvatochromic probes. With over 130 publications in separation science, John
Dorsey has contributed to the deep level of chemical understanding of
separation processes.