About the Author


Professional background (unorthodox)
·     Born in Budapest, Hungary, 1951.
·     Attending mathematical class at Fazekas Mihály secondary school (the institute renown as acting like magnet in collecting talents of future’s mathematicians) was his deliberate choice en route to gain inerrant fundament on following his plans in science.
·     In this period at age of 17, he brought success to Hungary as participant in 1st International Chemistry Olympiad held in Prague, 1968.
·     During his chemical studies at Eötvös Lóránd University, Hungary, between 1970-75, he specialized towards organic chemistry, with a marked interest in diverse analytical and spectroscopic methods too. This three domain he technically combined in his MSc thesis, to offer grounds for proposed reaction-mechanism after product-analysis & identification for compounds containing aryl-conjugated double-bonds oxidized by lead(IV)tetra-acetate.
·     On starting career he opted to begin with gaining deeper experience first with modern methods of chromatography. This meant an engagement with Research Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, where as a debutant he managed to carry out a separation that cried for long for a definite solution, via applying a trick offered by keeping intimacy with subtle details of organic chemistry. [Argentation chromatography of some stilbene derivatives Journal of Chromatography A 169, 1979, 469-474pp https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(75)85085-0 ]
·     Works from this era gave the material for his doctoral thesis. [Selected Chapters in HPLC, 1978]
·     Later events turned him back to gas-chromatography.
·     At this new position he built up a laboratory capable of accomplishing analyses of great diversity for environmental samples targeting sub-micro level, while the tasks to attend to were mostly routine.
·     This tepidity was stirred by a thought, which took 5 years to elaborate and led to the very clue enabling to realize multi-dimensionality unlimited. [Zone gas chromatography Analytical Chemistry 1989, 61, 1478-1485pp https://doi.org/10.1021/ac00189a003 (The picture below is taken from this period.)]
·     The introductory tremors and turmoil that grew in intensity as the economic collapse of state-communism proceeded swept lab, job, institute, and whatever remained save life and knowledge in the head. Which both are put in service now in the country, where people navigate helpless amid issues like the blessing/misery brought by sewage-plants and forced canalization at large in villages, or ways of remediation of a poisoned habitat destroyed by the previous.
Dég (Hungary)              January 22, 2020        Endre Fuggerth



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