About the Author

From JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY LIBRARY - volume 64
chromatography, a century of discovery 1900 - 2000, the bridge to the sciences / technology
edited by C.W.Gehrke, R.L.Wixom and E.Bayer, Elsevier (2001) ISBN 0-444 50114 2

Chapter 5, page 290 - 291, D.29. Rudolf E. Kaiser

Rudolf E. Kaiser was born on February 12, 1930 in Teplitz- Schönau. He studied at both the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Leipzig in the German Democratic Republic and received his doctorate in 1954.
In 1952 he joined the Institute of Technical Chemistry of the German Academy of Sciences where he soon became Head of the Department of Separation Sciences.
In 1960 he left the GDR for the FRG, where he joined BASF as an Analytical Chemist.
Here he stayed until 1972 when he founded his own Institute for Chromatography (IfC) (in Bad Dürkheim), which celebrated its 25th jubilee in 2004 and in which thousands of chromatographers from all over the world (from more than 50 countries) have been trained in all aspects of chromatography.

R. E. Kaiser has organized and taught many courses in other countries throughout the world.
   The research activities of R. E. Kaiser span the entire field of chromatography, especially capillary gas and planar chromatography, as well as statistical evaluation of analytical results, and computer application.
   R. E. Kaiser has authored more than 200 publications and numerous books, he also acted as Editor and Co-editor of many more. His first book on “Gas Chromatographie” was published in 1959 in East Germany. His four volume series “Chromatographie in der Gasphase” published in 1961 represents the first book on quantitative gas chromatography. It went through three editions in West Germany and was translated into English. One of the volumes of this series represents the first book in the world on capillary gas chromatography.
   R. E. Kaiser founded the well-known international journals ‘Chromatographia’ (1968), ‘Journal of High Resolution Chromatography and Chromatography Communication’ (1978), ‘Computer Application in the Laboratory’ (1983). He also played a key role in the founding of the ‘Journal of Planar Chromatography’ (1988). He was for many years Editor-in-Chief or an Editorial Board member of these journals.
   R. E. Kaiser started the following series of Symposia and was for many years their chairman: International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (since 1975: Hindelang, now in Riva del Garda); International Symposium on Planar Chromatography (since 1980: Bad Dürkheim, then Interlaken-CH, now Budapest HU); International Symposium on Chromatography and Spectroscopy in Environmental Analysis (since 1994: St.Petersburg-RUS)
   R. E. Kaiser’s achievements in chromatography have been recognized by a number of awards: Tswett Medal of the USSR Academy of Science - as a first foreign recipient (Moscow, USSR, 1978); Gold Medal of the Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Chemical Society (Beijing, PRC, 1988); A.J.P. Martin Award (Brighton, UK, 1989); Marcel Golay Award (Riva del Garda, Italy, 1989); Tswett Medal of the Chromatograpic Society of Russia (Düsseldorf, 1995); the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, R. Herzog, has decorated R. E. Kaiser in 1996 with the 1st Class German Distinguished Medal for his contribution to environmental analysis and for his international activities in this field.
   Dr. R. E. Kaiser is one of the pioneers in chromatography, who became active in this field in
1953. He has been active, enthusiastic, inspiring, creative and original promoter of the development and applicability of chromatography in analytical chemistry for almost 50 years. He has a natural talent for finding fast and simple solutions for many problems encountered in the analysis of complex mixtures. R. E. Kaiser is an extraordinary person whose contributions to chromatography - also his books, his symposia and his journals - are well known and recognized.
Chromatography is Rudolf Kaiser’s real hobby.
   See Chapter 5B, a, b, d, s
in the above mentioned book JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY LIBRARY - volume 64.