Daniel Wayne Armstrong is an American analytical chemist who specializes in separation science, chiral molecular recognition, bioanalytic analysis, mass spectrometry and colloid. He is the Robert A. Welch chair at University of Texas at Arlington. He has authored over 700 publications including 33 book chapters, a book, and holds over 35 patents on separation technologies. He is an associate editor for the prestigious American Chemical Society journal Analytical Chemistry and is a member of the national Academy of Inventors. Armstrong has given over 560 invited seminars worldwide at international conferences, universities and corporations. His research and patents formed the basis for two companies: Advanced Separation Technologies, Inc; which was acquires by Sigma-Aldrich Corporation in 2006 and AZYP, LLC in Arlington, TX. He is believed to have mentored more Ph.D. analytical chemists than any living scientist.
Biography
Daniel W. Armstrong was born in 1949 to Robert E. Armstrong, an educator and mayor of Fort Wayne, IN and Nila L. Armstrong. He was the oldest of their three sons. As an undergraduate student, he played collegiate football and track & field.
Early career
Armstrong received his B.S. from Washington and Lee University. He received M.S. in Oceanography and Ph.D. in Bio-organic Chemistry from Texas A&M University. Armstrong began his career at Bowdoin College as an Assistant Professor in 1978 and moved to Georgetown University in 1980, followed by Texas Tech University and then the University of Missouri Rolla as a Curators Distinguished Professor. Later he joined Iowa State University in 2000 as the first Caldwell Distinguished Professor. He joined University of Texas at Arlington in 2006 as the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor, where he currently leads a research group in diverse areas of new Chiral stationary phases, ionic liquids, separation mechanism and theory, ultra-fast analysis, D-amino acid and peptide analysis and gas and liquid chromatography instrumentation and detectors.
Awards and recognition
Elected as a member of the Chemistry Honor Society, Phi Lambda Upsilon, 1975, Texas A&M University
1988-1994 Teaching Excellence Award, University of Missouri-Rolla
1989 - Curators' Distinguished Professorship
1990 - EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Chromatography
1991 - Great Britain’s Martin Medal in recognition of outstanding contributions to Chromatography.
1992 - ISCO Lectureship Award for Significant Contributions to Instrumentation for Biochemical Separations.
1993 - 49th American Chemical Society Midwest Regional Award.
1993 - Presidential Award for Research and Creativity.
1994 - Publication entitled "Evaluation of the Macrocyclic Antibiotic Vancomycin as a Chiral Selector for Capillary Electrophoresis" received a 1994 Perkin-Elmer Award for Excellence in Capillary Electrophoresis.
1995 - R&D 100 Award.
1995 - American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Fellow Award.
1996 - The American Microchemical Societies’ A. A. Benedette-Pichler Award.
1997 - Karen Morehouse Best Paper Award” presented by the 12th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research.
1998 - American Chemical Society - Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach.
1999 - American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography.
