Cash prize and expenses-paid trips - as well as considerable prestige - on offer for the best European work in the field of plasma spectrochemistry
Agilent Technologies Europe has announced the donation of the European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry to promote analytical plasma spectrochemical developments and applications in Europe. The prize will be awarded for either a single outstanding piece of work or for continued important contributions to this field. The candidate must either be a European national must have carried out the work in a European laboratory.
There is no age restriction on eligibility.
The prize will be awarded every second year and presented at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, where the winner will be invited to present a lecture, following the award ceremony.
The prize, donated by Agilent Technologies, consists of €5000 cash and an all-expenses paid trip to Japan to attend a scientific event or seminar, where the winner will also be invited to present a lecture.
Travel expenses to the European Winter Conference to receive the award are also included.
Applications or nominations for the 2003 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry, to be presented at the 2003 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in January 2003, must be sent to the award panel chairman: Prof Dr Klaus Heumann Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, D-55099 Mainz, Germany Closing date for the acceptance of applications is 30 June 2002.
Further information on this award can be obtained from the 2003 European Winter Plasma Conference website www.gdch.de/tagung/5545/index.htm or from Agilent Technologies's ICP-MS web site (see above).
