Almost 1,000 companies will be displaying their newest products in about 3,100 booths at the exposition. Among these are companies like Danvers, Mass.-based Fisons Instruments Inc. and Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., which exhibited their products at the very first Pittsburgh Conference, as well. Some of the original equipment shown by these and other companies will be on display at the "Antiquities Museum," a special exhibition of instrumentation that has played a significant role in the advancement of analytical chemistry.
"The museum will give today's scientists the chance to review the advances in their fields and get back to their roots," says W. Richard Howe, president of PITTCON '94. "There has been a conversion from the earlier `wet' chemistry to modern analytical techniques. Imaging techniques are becoming more important now, as are computers and network systems," says Howe, who trained as a chemist and is currently an associate dean at ...
