Volume 8 of Developments in Applied Spectroscopy presents a collection
of selected papers presented at special symposia and other sessions
during the 20th Mid-America Symposium on Spectroscopy, held in Chicago,
May 12-15, 1969. In general, these papers are those of the symposium
type and not papers per- taining to a specific research topic that one
would expect to find in the journals. The 20th Mid-America Symposium was
sponsored by the Chicago Section in cooperation with the Niagara
Frontier, Rocky Mountain, St. Louis, and Southeastern Sections of the
Society of Applied Spectroscopy, and the Chicago Gas Chromatography
Group. Although the Mid-America is still occasionally thought of as a
regional meeting, its attendees and authors come from all parts of the
United States and Canada. Both theoretical and applied principles were
presented in sessions on emission, atomic absorption, x-ray, nuclear
particle, Raman and infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electron
spin resonance spectroscopy; computer applications; air and water
pollution, instrumental applications to biomedicine toxicology; spectra
and characterization; matrix isolation and gas chromatography-mass
spectrometry. In addition, there were symposia on trace element
analyses, silicate analyses, Mossbauer spectroscopy, electron
spectroscopy for chemical analyses (ESCA), spectroscopy of materials
under high pressure, and reference spectra and retrieval systems. The
various chairmen of the Symposium Committee, H. Bedell, Dr. Charles
Bell, Dr. Eleanor Berman, Dr. Roy Bible, Sam Booras, James E. Burroughs,
Adrian Chisholm, Dr. Paul Day, Tod Engelskirchen, G. A. Ettelt, Dr. L.
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