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| Ronald Hites, IU Distinguished Professor of public and environmental affairs, has been named one of the most cited scientific authors in the field of applied science by the Institute for Scientific Information. He and John Huffman, director of both the IU Molecular Structure Center and the IU Informatics Research Institute, are named for their accomplishments on ISIHighlyCited.com, an American Chemical Society Web site. Huffman was identified as the 11th most prolific scientist in the world throughout the 1980s.
Hites began making important contributions to environmental chemistry while still a graduate student at MIT by developing the first computerized gas chromatographic mass spectrometry, a way of identifying and measuring the amount of organics in a complicated sample. Through application of such techniques, his research has focused on toxic organics and real-life problems. A 1985 study, for example, assessed toxic organic compounds leaking from several dump sites in the city of Niagara Falls, N.Y. By measuring the compounds in sediments and fish in surrounding rivers and lakes, the study was able to demonstrate the long-range impact of the dump sites on the vaster ecosystem. http://www.indiana.edu/~hiteslab/ http://www.iumsc.indiana.edu/staff/huffman/homepage.html
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