Society Awards and Honors
2005 Fellowships
PNNL Scientist Appointed to Royal Chemistry Society
Dave Koppenaal, a Laboratory Fellow and manager of Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. The honor is given to distinguished scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of chemical science.
Koppenaal was selected for his more than 30 years of experience and achievement in the field of chemistry, and for his internationally recognized expertise in plasma source mass spectrometry. He has been involved in ion source, instrumentation, application and theoretical innovations with this widely-used and applied analytical technology. He has pioneered the application of ion molecule reactions in inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry, and also initiated its use as a powerful and increasingly relevant radioanalytical tool. Currently, he is leading a collaboration effort on the design of a new detector technology for mass spectrometry and is active in the development of techniques and methods for use in proteomics and structural and functional biology research. Koppenaal has interacted extensively with UK colleagues and instrumentation manufacturers in many of these endeavors.
Koppenaal earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental chemistry and mathematics from Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield in 1974 and a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1978. He has published more than 68 scientific articles, has seven patents and has presented more than 130 lectures internationally. In 1998, Koppenaal was appointed a Laboratory Fellow, the highest distinction of scientific achievement at PNNL. He also is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Society for Mass Spectrometry and Society of Applied Spectroscopy.
RSC (www.rsc.org) has 42,000 members, and was founded in England in 1877. The RSC is the largest organization in Europe for chemical sciences and works to pursue the advancement of chemistry, the dissemination of chemical knowledge and the development of chemical applications.
PNNL (www.pnl.gov) is a DOE Office of Science laboratory that solves complex problems in energy, national security, the environment and life sciences by advancing the understanding of physics, chemistry, biology and computation. PNNL employs more than 4,000, has a $650 million annual budget, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the laboratory’s inception in 1965. (announced 5/16/2005)