Robert B. Myers, president of Myers Consulting in Houston, Texas, where he also resides, has been chosen to receive a 2005 ASTM International Award of Merit for his contributions to ASTM Committee E01 on Analytical Chemistry for Metals, Ores and Related Materials. The honor, which is accompanied by the title of fellow, is the highest ASTM International recognition for individual contributions to standards activities.

Involved since 1987 with ASTM standards development for atomic emission spectrometry, Myers is currently chair of Subcommittee E01.23, Terminology and Editorial; he is also a member of ASTM Committee D19 on Water. Myers, who works on several E01 subcommittees, has made significant contributions to E01 standards through editorial review of new and revised documents as well as the ongoing review of E 135, Standard Terminology Relating to Analytical Chemistry for Metals, Ores, and Related Materials. For his ASTM International service, Myers has previously received a Committee E01 Certificate of Appreciation, the H.V. Churchill Award, and the T. R. Linde Award.

With experience in working for Thermo Elemental (formerly Jarrell-Ash), Leeman Labs, Tracor Northern, and Jobin Yvon before forming his own consulting company, Myers has been involved with atomic emission spectrometry for almost 40 years. Most recently, he had been general manager of CETAC Technologies, which provides sample introduction and preparation techniques for inductively coupled plasma and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry instruments. Myers has been actively involved in sales and marketing of emission products worldwide as well as presenting technical seminars in many countries related to his field.

Myers graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh with a B.S. in chemistry, and did graduate work in emission spectroscopy at the Iowa State University in Ames.

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