Demand-Pull and Science-Push in Multielement Analysis

Abstract

I did not want to pass up the chance to take part in honoring Velmer Fassel on the occasion of the presentation to him of the 1979 ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry. I had a problem though, in that the topic of the sympo-Material in this paper was presented at the Symposium on Multielement Analysis at the ACS National Meeting. March 4, 1979, on the occasion of the presentation of the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry to Velmer A.