Wilkins Recognized by ACS
Charles Wilkins, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2013 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company. The award recognizes Wilkins for his contributions to a broad range of analytical instrumentation techniques that have been documented in over 300 publications in Analytical Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry and many other books and journals. He has also authored and/or co-edited nine books covering a variety of analytical instrumentation methods. These publications have been cited extensively in the chemical literature and include a dozen papers cited more than 100 times each and a lifetime total of over 7000 citations.
Wilkins is distinguished by his leading contributions in a wide range of analytical instrumentation, including advances in Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, FT-nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry and computerized laboratory data acquisition and analysis. He has primarily been recognized for his contributions to the development of “hyphenated” instrument approaches to couple distinct types of instrumentation for analytical purposes. He was the first to combine GC-infrared and mass spectrometry into a single analysis system and also was a leader in the combination of HPLC analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance, in ways that opened the current use of HPLC-NMR for metabolomics studies. His work, in collaboration with Michael Gross, also pioneered the use of ICR-mass spectrometry for analytical applications.
Wilkins has served in numerous professional capacities, including terms both as Chair of the Analytical Chemistry Division and Chair of the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. He also was Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside for seven years. He served on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Toxicological Research of the FDA and has served on many other advisory boards and panels. Wilkins also serves on the editorial advisory boards of numerous journals, among them Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, and, previously, two terms on the Analytical Chemistry editorial board. He is a Contributing Editor of Trends in Analytical Chemistry, and serves as Associate Editor of International Journal of Analytical Chemistry.