2009 Pittcon Heritage Award - A. Bader

The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) has announced that Dr. Alfred Bader (Cofounder of Aldrich Chemical Company, former chairman of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation) has received the 2009 annual Pittcon Heritage Award. Jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and CHF, this award recognizes outstanding individuals whose entrepreneurial careers have shaped the instrumentation community, inspired achievement, promoted public understanding of the modern instrumentation sciences, and highlighted the role of analytical chemistry in world economies. Dr. Bader founded the Aldrich Chemical Company, a fine chemicals company that later would become the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, the 80^th largest chemical company in the United States. In 1995, he published his autobiography, "Adventures of a Chemist Collector", which details his experiences from Nazi-era refugee to chemist magnate to fine arts connoisseur. In 2008, the second autobiography has been published, "Chemistry & Art: Further Adventures of a Chemist Collector".