Chromatography Focus Renowned French Chromatographer, Jean-Louis Rocca Passes Away at 64
Jean-Louis Rocca was born in 1945 in Lyon, France. He obtained a degree in chemical engineering from the Lyon School of Industrial Chemistry (ESCIL now Chemistry, Physic and Electronics, CPE school). Passionate for research, he did not applied for a job in industry but rather took a teaching assistant position to get a PhD from the University of Lyon. His earlier investigations were in the field of molten salts since liquid chromatography was in its infancy in 1968. His interests in separation science began as he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as an assistant researcher in 1973. He spent his life working at the University of Lyon for CNRS reaching the top rank of Research Director. He authored or co-authored about 100 articles in the field of separation science mainly liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis working and developing all areas especially theoretical studies on band broadening, preparative chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, chemometrics and optimisation, high speed and high temperature and recently, microsystems. He was member of the editorial board of most French journals in analytical chemistry along with ‘Electrophoresis’ (Wiley). He was known in the French chromatographic community as one of the early pioneers
of liquid chromatography. His main concern was to spread the knowledge and use of the separation techniques. He directed the research work of more than forty students most of them getting a PhD. In the seventies, as the interest of the pharmaceutical and chemical industries for the liquid chromatography technique grew rapidly, he participated to the creation of the Lyon's Club of Liquid Chromatography becoming the president in 1995.
For more than thirty-five years, the ‘Club Lyonnais’ organises three times a year one-day conferences on themes related to novelties in separation sciences (see
www.afsep.com). He also initiated the bi-annual series SEP, symposium in French dealing with separation techniques and applications (see
www.sep09.com).
He taught a countless number of short courses that allowed him to form industrial staff to the correct use of chromatographic equipments and to raise money to run his research group. He was the head of the department of analytical chemistry at the University of Lyon since 1996. He was considering retirement but life decided otherwise. He will be deeply missed by his wife and two children as well as by the French chromatographic community.
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