The Talanta Medal was initiated in 1961 by Pergamon Press to honor outstanding contributions to analytical chemistry. This prestigious award of a gold medal was first given to spot test pioneer Fritz Feigl, who wrote the foreword for the first issue of Talanta in July,1958, and contributed to the first issue. It was awarded on an irregular basis, with the following recipients:
1961 Professor Fritz Feigl Rio de Janerio, Brazil
1963 Professor Gerold Schwarzenbach ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1965 Professor I.P. Alimarin Vernadsky Institute, Moscow, USSR
1967 Professor Egon Stahl University of Saarland, Germany
1969 Dr. Alan Walsh CSIRO Melbourne, Australia
1971 Dr. Rudolph Pribil Heyrovsky Institute, Czechoslovakia
1974 Professor B.V. Lvov Polytechnical Institute, Leningrad, USSR
1977 Professor Ronald Belcher University of Birmingham, England
1981 Professor Jaromir Ružicka Technical University of Denmark
1983 Professor Taitiro Fujinaga University of Kyoto, Japan
1986 Professor Ernö Pungor Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
1988 Professor Herbert Laitinen University of Florida USA
1991 Professor Wilhelm Simon ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
1993 Professor James Winefordner University of Florida USA
1995 Professor Gary Christian University of Washington USA
2015 Professor E.H. Hansen, The Technical University of Denmark
After a twenty year hiatus, Elsevier Science is pleased to announce reinauguration of the Talanta Medal. It will again be awarded, with a goal to select outstanding recipients every two years. We hope this medal will once again reflect on the reputation of this leading analytical journal.
The Editors Gary D. Christian Jean-Michel Kauffmann José-Luis Burguera Jianhua Wang Ian McKelvie Lola Luque de Castro