The John Dolphin Fellowships

Many members of The Chromatographic Society and readers of Chromatography Today will know of the sad passing away of John Dolphin at the age of only 62. John was a long-serving member of the Executive Committee of The Chromatographic Society in the 1980s. For much of this time, he was Treasurer and then Chairman from 1985 to 1987. The grainy black-and-white photographs shown below, taken from the Society’s ‘Bulletin’ show John mixing with various luminaries of the time. He was also well known in the wider chromatographic community as the principal player of the chromatography division of Shandon Southern and its various subsequent metamorphoses. In this role, John collaborated closely with Professor John Knox of Edinburgh University and was responsible for bringing his Hypersil and Hypercarb products to market.