“Through this designation, we pay tribute to the vision and ingenuity of the Dow scientists, Fred McLafferty and Roland Gohlke, who first combined gas chromatography (GC) and mass spectrometry (MS) more than 60 years ago,” says ACS President Bonnie Charpentier, Ph.D. “In doing so, they created some of the most ubiquitous, powerful tools in the analytical toolbox.”
“It isn’t widely known that GC-MS was invented here in Midland,” says Wayde Konze, Ph.D., senior R&D director for analytical sciences at Dow. “That will change with the recognition of the National Historic Chemical Landmark. Dow has a strong tradition of innovations in analytical chemistry and across the entire field of chemistry. That tradition is alive and well today as inventive scientists continue to solve hard problems and push the boundaries of what is possible.”