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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