Bernie Monaghan - 2nd June 1952 - 6th April 2013
It is with great sadness we regretfully inform you that our colleague and great friend Bernie Monaghan passed away on 6th April after a long illness.
Bernie was a well known figure to the chromatography and spectroscopy community worldwide and enormously respected throughout the scientific industry for his considerable knowledge, coupled with a willingness and great ability to pass this on - he would always find time for anybody with a question or problem.
He contributed hugely to ILM, Lab Asia and Chromatography Today, providing up to date reports from industry meetings and in-depth articles which created great interest and responses from our readers.
What he couldn’t provide in person, he managed to cajole and persuade from his many friends and colleagues in The Chromatographic Society and British Mass Spectroscopy Society as well as from many other groups and branches of science - probably with a bit of arm twisting in a local pub – but usually with great good humour thrown in.
Bernie indeed will be remembered for his great sense of entering into the spirit of things both academically and socially and is a very sad loss to us all.
Tributes to Bernie from Friends & Colleagues
Bernie has been a good friend and mentor over the many years I have known him, however, I got to know Bernie really well when he joined International Labmate as our Editor and instigator of Chromatography Today. In business at International Labmate he drove and developed Chromatography Today and increased the quality of the articles within the International Labmate titles.
Socially Bernie was always fantastic company to be with. He knew where all the Irish bars in all the cities we travelled to were and he often kept some/all of the younger members of our team on their toes! It seemed like Bernie knew everyone and everyone who knew Bernie always had a great word to say or story to tell about him. I valued his advice, his help and his friendship.
- Marcus Pattison, MD International Labmate Ltd
Bernie was synonymous with the Hypersil business from its early days initially as part of Shandon, then becoming Hypersil Ltd and latterly becoming part of the Thermo Electron Corporation (now Thermo Fisher Scientific). He became known across the whole industry, forging relationships and business partnerships with companies all over the world, his friendly and sociable nature being a natural asset to help him do this. It’s testament to his diplomatic and ambassadorial skills that messages of condolences have been received from all quarters of the Chromatography world, including the senior executives of many companies Bernie would have competed directly with in his professional career.
Extending on his social qualities, Bernie was at his most prominent during the major industry events such as Pittcon & Analytica, never missing from the fray of the discussions and meetings in the exhibition hall, and thriving in the after-hours discussions around the restaurants, hotels and bars. If there had been a Pittcon award for ‘last man standing’, Bernie would have won it every year. His guiding rule for himself and his team was “you can always sleep on the plane home”
- Kevin Doolan
I have known Bernie for many years and have very fond memories of his humour and generosity both of knowledge and socialising. In recent times I have worked with him on articles for the ILM and CT publications as well as reports on symposia and meetings for the Chromatographic Society. He was accurate, dependable and reliable, all of which made him a very easy man with whom to work with I shall miss him greatly and hope that his passing goes with due note of his contribution to science, technology and humanity.
- Dr Chris Bevan.
I was really saddened to hear about Bernie Monaghan. Bernie was a great help to me in the early days. When I started out at Bristol, there were not many people who had any practical experience of HPLC, and electronic communications were still in their infancy. I had done a lot of GC in my PhD project with Graham Nickless at Bristol University, but HPLC was something that was a mystery to most people. Bernie was around the area from time to time and was always full of sensible advice and helpful suggestions. He was always such a positive guy too - very upbeat and enthusiastic. He will be really missed in the separation science community.
- David McCalley PhD, Professor in Bioanalytical Science, University of the West of England
On a personal front I have known Bernie for many years and being based in the NW had much to do with him from his early days with Shandon and latterly with Thermo . He was fount of all knowledge when it came to HPLC columns and always had a good story to tell.
In his later years he was instrumental in setting up the link between Chromatography Today and The Chromatographic Society and without his drive and tenacity I don’t think the journal would have achieved its now current success.
The chromatography community will miss him greatly. - Alan Handley, President of the Chromatographic Society
Many fond memories of Bernie and time spent with Bernie - dating way back and more recently in Baltimore, Valencia and Torun.
He must have had unique inter-personal skills. From working with him on Chromatography Today, I discovered that he was the only person I know that could criticise me without me ever taking offence! - John Lough
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