Technology | Leader 26 May 2021
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WHEN a powerful new technology comes around, people often split into two camps: those captivated by its benefits and those worried by the trouble it could unleash. This has happened with everything from knitting machines in the 16th century to artificial intelligence today.
Analytical Mass Spectrometry: How Did We Get Here, Where are We Going?
Thought LeadersRichard YostDepartment of ChemistryUniversity of Florida
In this interview, News-Medical Life Sciences talks to Richard Yost, winner of the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award 2021, about his research into mass spectrometry and his presentation at Pittcon.
Congratulations on receiving the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award. How do you feel about this award?
I am very humbled in receiving this award. The people who won it in the past are pioneers and leaders in analytical chemistry, and it is an honor to join them. This is also a great opportunity to celebrate the tools that we all have developed to measure things within analytical chemistry.
In 2012, proud dad Ramjit Raghav made global headlines when he became a father at the age of 96. He had beaten the record for the world’s oldest dad – a record he’d set himself, two years earlier, at the age of 94.
Older men fathering children is not unknown, especially in the world of celebrities. Rod Stewart became a dad for the eighth time at 66, Mick Jagger at the age of 72, and Bernie Ecclestone became a father again at the age of 89 in July 2020. Men can produce sperm from puberty to a ripe old age and continue to father children as long as they do so.