SAS Technical Awards

Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award

This award is given to the author(s) of the outstanding paper appearing in Applied Spectroscopy. It is awarded at the Society for Applied Spectroscopy award ceremony held at the fall meeting following the calendar year of publication and shall consist of a scroll and an honorarium of $3500.00.

• 2020 Winning Paper and Awardees: Pavel Matousek, Kay Sowoidnich, Michael Towrie, Martin Maiwald, and Bernd Sumpf

SAS/NASLIBS Award

This award is given to the author(s) of the outstanding LIBS paper appearing in Applied Spectroscopy. It is awarded at the Society for Applied Spectroscopy award ceremony held at the fall meeting following the calendar year of publication and shall consist of a plaque. This award is selected by a committee and no outside nominations are accepted.

• 2020 Winning Paper and Awardees: Anupam K. Misra, Tayro E. Acosta-Maeda, John N. Porter, Genesis Berlanga, Dalton Muchow, Shiv K. Sharma, and Brian Chee

• “A Two Components Approach for Long Range Remote Raman and Laser-Induced Breakdown (LIBS) Spectroscopy Using Low Laser Pulse Energy” Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 73, 3.

Lippincott Award

This award is given to honor the memory of Ellis R. Lippincott. The award is sponsored jointly by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the Coblentz Society, and the Optical Society of America. The recipient of the award shall have made significant contributions to vibrational spectroscopy.  These contributions may be theoretical, experimental, or both, as well as basic or applied. A $1500 award is included along with an engraved crystal box.

• 2020 Awardee:  Volker Deckert
• Submission deadline October 1

Bruce R. Kowalski Award in Chemometrics

Presented in honor of the legacy of Professor Kowalski by recognizing outstanding young researchers in the field of chemometrics and by extension, for advanced mathematical and/or statistical methods in chemistry. Click for more details.

• 2020 Awardee: No Award Given
• Submission deadline October 1

How to Nominate Someone

To nominate for an award, please send an email with any pertinent information (see award description for details) that would help our awards committees determine the nominees worthiness for the award to sasadmin@s-a-s.org

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