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Professor Joseph Anthony Caruso: in memoriam
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DOI: 10.1039/c7ja90023f
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It is now more than one year since Joe Like most RSC journals, JAAS has two the preceptor of roughly 100 PhD recipi- Caruso passed away and much has boards, an International Advisory Board ents at the University of Cincinnati and already been written to recognize his and a much smaller Editorial Board, the published more than 400 papers, most in many important contributions to science, latter intended to provide frequent, direct top scientic journals. He presented collegiality, and mentorship; good exam- input into journal goals, priorities, and nearly 400 invited lectures at academic ples can be found in the Agilent ICP-MS policies. Joe Caruso served on the Inter- institutions and at national and interna- Journal, February, 2016, pp. 2–5. Rather national Advisory Board or Editorial tional conferences. Because of these than to repeat this material or provide Board of JAAS from 1998 to the time of his achievements, Joe received many of the additional testimonials, we will empha- death. He was the rst non-European to most highly coveted awards in the eld of size here Joe’s involvement with the RSC become a member of the JAAS Editorial Analytical Chemistry. Perhaps most and some of its journals: the Journal of Board and the rst to serve as its chair surprising is that he accomplished all Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS), (from 2000–2004). Joe worked together this while holding a number of adminis- Metallomics, Chemical Society Reviews, with RSC editors, particularly Niamh trative posts at the University of Cincin- and Analyst. This emphasis seems O’Connor, in founding and establishing nati, including Department Chair and Published on 11 July 2017. Downloaded 16/04/2018 09:17:10. particularly tting since this memorial the journal Metallomics, and chaired its Dean of Arts and Sciences. will appear in a special joint issue of the Editorial Board during its formative years Others have offered to write testimo- two RSC journals JAAS and Metallomics. (2008–2012). In addition, he was on the nies to Joe Caruso’sinuence on their Joseph Anthony Caruso advisory or editorial boards of other RSC lives and science, but all cannot be journals, including Chemical Society included here. As a representative Reviews and Analyst. example, Dr Juris Meija (NRC Canada) Roughly 30% of Joe Caruso’s scientic recently wrote “One cannot think of Car- work has been published in RSC journals, uso without remembering his upliing mainly JAAS (92), Analyst (19) and Metal- humour and the anecdotes through lomics (12). In addition, three of his top which he showed us how to become ten most cited papers are found in these better and more approachable scien- journals; each boasts more than 100 tists”. This aspect of Joe’s impact is citations. These most cited contributions echoed by many. involve As and Se speciation research We feel privileged to be involved in using either conventional hybrid preparing this collection of manuscripts methods or the most creative coupled for the joint issue of JAAS and Metal- devices such as supercritical uid lomics. One of us (MMB) was fortunate to chromatography-plasma mass spectrom- enjoy Joe’s presence in her life during etry or gas-chromatography with low- a post-doctorate as a Fulbright Fellow at pressure ICP-MS. the University of Cincinnati. She states, a Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East In more general terms, it is difficult to “he was the perfect academic role model Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA overstate the impact that Joe Caruso has for me, and a wonderful mentor from the bDepartment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Julian´ had on the eld of Analytical Chemistry outset; we enjoyed corresponding with Claver´ıa 8, 33006 Oviedo, Spain or, indeed, on science in general. He was one another without the labels of mentor
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and mentee. Joe had an amazing impact international recognition of and regard Maria Montes-Bayon on who I am today, as a scientist but also for Joe Caruso and the appreciation from as a person”. The other (GMH), knew Joe the spectroscopy community. This during most of our nearly coincident compilation does not fully represent or academic careers. Hieje indicates, “we include all who loved and admired Joe were proud to have been among the die- Caruso, but serves as an appropriate hard proponents of Microwave-Induced sampling. Plasmas (commemorated by Joe’s Gary M. Hieje commissioning of t-shirts emblazoned with ‘MIPS Are Us’) and enjoyed both collaboration and competition. Joe’s science was terric, but even more impressive to me was his zest for life, his enthusiasm, and his ever-present opti- mism. I have never been able to visualize Joe without a smile on his face”. Twenty-three scientic contributions have been submitted to this joint issue of JAAS and Metallomics; they reveal the Published on 11 July 2017. Downloaded 16/04/2018 09:17:10.
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