The selected photos and biographies that appear here are, in most but not all cases, those that appeared at the time the awardee was presented with the Anachem Award. By selected is meant those persons for whom biographies and photos could be found. .

 Ralph G. Smith, 1967 Awardee (Bio from 1967 )

 The 1967 Anachem Award was presented to Dr. Ralph G,. Smith of the  Department of Occupational and Environmental Health School of  Medicine, Wayne University for his outstanding contributions in the field of analytical chemistry. Dr. Smith was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1920 He received his doctorate from Wayne University in 1953 majoring in Analytical Chemistry. He worked as an analytical chemist for Rotary Electric Steel between1940 and 1942 after which he served as meteorologist for the U.S. Air Force until 1946. Between 1946 and l955 he worked as an industrial hygienist and chief  chemist for Bureau of Industrial Hygiene for the City of Detroit. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of  Industrial Medicine and Hygiene, College of Medicine, Wayne State University between 1955 and 1963. From 1963 to date he has been a Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Wayne State. He has also done extensive consultation to industry in the past decade in the industrial hygiene and air pollution areas. Dr. Smith is a member of the American Chemical Society, and is Section Editor for Chem Abstracts, Toxicology, Air Pollution and Industrial Hygiene. He is a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association; American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists; American Public Health Association; Air Pollution Control Appeals Board, Wayne County Board of Health, State of Michigan; American Academy of Industrial Hygiene; New York Academy of Sciences; Air Pollution Control Association; Sigma Xi; Phi Lambda Upsilon, and many other societies. His many publications have dealt with the analytical chemistry of.beryllium, ozone, mercury and other substances, methods'of air sampling and analysis, sampling and.analysis of biological materials and various aspects of industrial hygiene and toxicological matters

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Jeanette Grasselli, 1978 Awardee (Bio From 1990)

Dr. Grasselli received a BS in Chemistry (summa cum laude from Ohio University and an MS from Case Western Reserve University. She has  honorary degrees from Ohio University-   DSc's  in 1978 and Clarkston University in 1986 and a DEng from Michigan Technological University in  1988. Most of her career was spent at Standard Oil/Ohio (BP America) where, at the time of her retirement , she was R and D Director  responsible for Emerging Materials, Applied Physics, Polymer Sciences, Materials and Composites, Biotechnology, Catalysis and the Analytical and Environmental Sciences Labs.

Her technical specialties are in the areas of molecular spectroscopy-an area where she has written 6 books- and analytical problem solving. Dr. Grasselli has lectured on these topics at universities and R&D facilites too numerous to mention. She is also associated with many committees including the Visiting Committee for NIST, the Advisory Committee for Chemistry of the National Science Foundation and the Chemical Sciences Technology Board for the NRC. Technical organizations where she has served as Director, Chair or President include SAS, Analytical Division of the ACS and FACSS. In addition to the Anachem Award, Dr. Grasselli's honors include the1986 Garvan Medal (given by the ACS to the outstanding woman chemist in the United States), a member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, the YWCA, Career Woman of the Year in 1971 and the Williams-Wright Award of the Coblentz Society. She was named, in 1981, as one of the 2000 Women of Achievement in the World and in 1985, One of the Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century.

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The winner of the 1968 Anachem Award is Dr. Eugene Sawicki of the National Center for Air Pollution Control. A principle goal of Dr. Sawicki's group is to determine, in great detail, the composition of urban atmospheres - especially compounds that are physiologically active. Dr. Sawicki and his co- workers have developed many new methods of separating and analyzing the highly complex mixtures that characterize the air of American cities.Specific innovations made under Dr. Sawicki's direction include combinations of techniques, such as column with thin layer chromatography; quenchofluorometric and quencho- phosphorometric analysis, methods for analysis of aldehydes, quantitative procedures for application of analysis of particulate pollutants from motor vehicles and application of analytical methods to medical investigations of cancer -causing pollutants in urban air.

Dr. Sawicki was born July 11, 1916 at New Bedford, Massachusetts. Following four years of service in the Army he entered the University of Cincinnati where he received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemistry in 1949 and 1950. In 1952 he received a Ph.D. in Cancer Research at the University of Florida. That same year, he joined the staff of the University of Florida Cancer Research Laboratory as an Assistant Professor. In 1956 he joined the staff of the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, where he is now Head of the Particulate Chemistry Section. His chief research interests are in air pollution, airborne particulate analysis, cancer chemistry, gas and thin layer chromatography, electrophoresis, and spectrophotometry. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, RESA, ACS, and the Air Pollution Control Association.

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