Chromatography Forum

I'm retired, living in the US, a native Brit (still a green card holder after 40 years here). Worked as an environmental chemist pretty much all my life. But I got my start in GC (GLC as we called it then) with Unilever Colworth House (Bedfordshire) in 1966 at 17 and my first lesson in GC was from Tony James (as in James and Martin 1952, generally recognized as the paper introducing GC as a technique) and I worked in RPW (Ray) Scott's group. We had a stopped flow GC MS which we thought was the world's first and most of the work we did was on analysis of flavors and aromas and how to duplicate them from the storeroom shelf. Fun times. All packed columns of course and most of our equipment was made and not purchased. Kent static integrators were a novelty. I might weigh in occasionally on the early days.

Welcome!

Welcome aboard.

Welcome!

Looking forward to you weighing in on "the olden days."

welcome on board.
Your experiences will be of value when Google is struggling... !!!

Lovely to hear from you. We, now, owe those early days a great deal. It's mind-boggling how chromatography and particularly associated mass spectrometry have developed over a relatively short period. It's too easy to forget the history in the pressure of the present - and then find we're having to re-invent concepts and relearn what we ought to have known. And it's fun!

I often cite an older GC guy who told to an old GC guy, who told it to me:

"Never fix a working instrument"

I often cite an older GC guy who told to an old GC guy, who told it to me:
"Never fix a working instrument"

I often cite an older guy who stated "never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you"

This saying dates back to the 1800s....