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EDITORIALWalter GigerThe Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Swiss ChemicalSociety joins Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistryas a supporting partnerPublished online: 22 December 2004 Springer-Verlag 2004Starting in January 2005, the Division of AnalyticalChemistry (DAC) of the Swiss Chemical Society be-comes a supporting partner for the journal Analyticaland Bioanalytical Chemistry. The Swiss community ofanalytical chemists is very proud that they can join thishighly successful European journal.The discipline of Analytical Chemistry has a longtradition in Switzerland. Swiss researchers have con-tributed substantially to the progress of this fascinatingﬁeld of science. Gerold Schwarzenbach, Willy Simonand Kurt Grob could be named as representativeexamples of extraordinarily successful Swiss analyticalchemists. If you look at the achievements of the recentSwiss Nobel laureates you can easily see that some ofthem—Heinrich Rohrer (scanning tunneling micro-scope, 1986), Richard R. Ernst (NMR, 1991) and KurtWu¨thrich (NMR, 2002)—can be thought of as analyticalscientists.At this point, I would like to make a plea for us tobegin to move away from thinking in terms of ‘‘Ana-lytical Chemistry’’, and move towards the more accurateterm ‘‘Analytical Sciences’’. For many years now, ana-lytical chemistry has encompassed work performed be-yond its core boundaries: for example, studies thatinclude various spectroscopic techniques, which arestrictly speaking physical methods. More recent devel-opments strongly emphasize biological methods. Such atransition is also clearly reﬂected in the title of thisjournal by the term ‘‘Bioanalytical’’. I support the no-tion that at the beginning of this century the scientiﬁcdisciplines are opening up. On the other hand, we shouldnot forget that much of what forms the basis of modernlife sciences could in some sense be called analyticalchemistry.The Swiss Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC)aims to establish a forum for analytical sciences andchemical measurement in chemistry, materials, envi-ronmental and life sciences. The goals of the DAC are topromote analytical science in all ﬁelds of science, todisseminate information, to create a forum that enablesthe discussion of topical issues and interdisciplinarycollaboration, and to highlight the importance of ana-lytical science in science and education, industry, com-merce and government. If one looks at these objectives,it becomes very clear that it is a great opportunity for theSwiss DAC to join Analytical and Bioanalytical Chem-istry, which is an excellent resource for the publicationof new results and ideas. We are very much lookingforward to a successful cooperation with the nationalsocieties, the publishers and the editors. We are stronglyconvinced that this will be a mutually proﬁtable andsatisfactory endeavour.Walter Giger is currently thePresident of the DAC of theSwiss Chemical Society. He isheading the Division for Chem-ical Pollutants at the Swiss Fed-eral Institute for EnvironmentalScience and Technology (EA-WAG) and is a professor at theSwiss Federal Institute of Tech-nology (ETH) in Zurich. Hiscurrent research interests arethe development and applicationof trace analytical methods foremerging environmental con-taminants, including endocrinedisruptors, antibiotics, biocidesand anticorrosives.W. GigerDepartment for Chemical Pollutants,EAWAG, Ueberlandstr. 133, P.O. Box 611,CH-8600 Duebendorf, SwitzerlandE-mail: giger@eawag.chAnal Bioanal Chem (2005) 381: 5DOI 10.1007/s00216-004-2941-2

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