Evan C. Horning

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Evan Charles Horning (born June 6, 1916 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † May 14, 1993 in Houston , Texas ) was an American chemist .

Life

Evan C. Horning was born in Philadelphia in 1916 and studied here at the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1937 . He then went as a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a doctorate here 1940 Reynold C. Fuson in chemistry. He then worked for a year as a teacher at Bryn Mawr College and then as a research assistant at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , where he met his future wife Marjorie G. Horninggot to know whom he married in 1942. Marjorie was studying at the university and did her doctorate in biochemistry in 1943.

Evan C. Horning went back to the University of Pennsylvania with his wife in 1945 and, in the early 1950s, to the National Heart Institute (now the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda , Maryland , where he Head of the Laboratory of Chemistry of Natural Products . In 1961 they both moved to Houston , Texas. Evan C. Horning became Professor of Chemistry and his wife Professor of Biochemistry in the College of Medicine at Baylor University . From 1966 until his retirement in 1986, he was director of the University's Institute for Lipid Research and, from 1971, an associate professor at Rice University . He died on May 14, 1993.

Evan C. Horning and his wife pioneered the use of gas chromatography in analytical biochemistry. He developed methods, devices and materials that made it possible to use gas chromatography to separate biomolecules without destroying them. He used this successfully to separate carbohydrates , steroids , cholesterol esters and saponins . He was also one of the first scientists to combine gas chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry .

Awards

  • 1977: Scheele Prize (Swedish Pharmaceutical Society)
  • 1990: Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award (American Chemical Society)

Works

  • Evan C. Horning, A. Karmen, GC Sweeley: Gas Chromatography of Lipids. In: Frederick L. Crane (Ed.): Progress in the Chemistry of Fats and other Lipids. Pergamon, 1964, pp. 167-289.
  • Kristen B. Eik-Nes and Evan C. Horning: Gas Phase Chromatography of Steroids (Monographs on Endocrinology). Springer, 1968, ISBN 978-3540042778 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Married Couples in Science at NIH. Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Leslie S. Ettre, Albert Zlatkis (Ed.): 75 Years of Chromatography: A Historical Dialogue. Elsevier Scientific, 1979, pp. 141-150.
  3. ↑ a b c Norman Rabjohn: Evan C. Horning: June 6, 1916 - May 14, 1993. ( Memento of March 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Organic Syntheses. Vol. 73, 1996, pp. XXV-XXVI.
  4. ↑ Leslie S. Ettre: Fifty Years of Gas Chromatography - The Pioneers I Knew, Part II. ( Memento of November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: LC GC North America. Vol. 20, No. 5, 2002, pp. 452-463.
  5. ↑ Scheele Award: Former laureates. Apotekarsocieteten (Swedish Pharmaceutical Society). Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  6. ^ Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry. American Chemical Society (ACS). Retrieved September 16, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Horning, Evan C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horning, Evan Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1993
Place of death Houston , Texas