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Stanley Bruckenstein (November 2 1927- ) is a retired analytical chemist and chemistry educator.

Bruckenstein’s fame was cemented by the  Fourth Edition "Quantitative Chemical Analysis," coauthored by Professors Piet Koltofff, Sandell, E. J. Meehan, and S. Bruckenstein. This textbook used by students at hundreds of universities since the original edition was published in 1952. It has been translated into six languages and is considered the "bible" for this branch of chemistry.

Early Life and Family.

Stanley  (1927) was born in Brooklyn, NY. His father, Max, was a first-generation Romanian furrier.  His entrepreneurial, mother, Rose, immigrated from Ukraine. She ran poker games in the Lower East Side garment district and sublet apartments, violating NYC rent control regulations. His older brother, Bernie, was a engineering student drafted during  WWII.  After returning stateside, he got married and became a furrier. His children, Robin (Rockefeller University) and Joel (T3 Technology)

Stanley married Phyllis Yavel (1950).  They had three children: Barbara (Kanter) , David, and Lisa (Cole). 

His grandson, J. Max Kanter (1993) graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and AI Lab Feature Labs developed world-class, automated feature engineering capabilities, which eliminate the otherwise time-consuming, manual processes for data scientists. Alteryx leveraged these technologies to expand its code-free and code-friendly modeling and assisted modeling capabilities. Alteryx acquired Feature Labs in 2020. Max Kanter founded GridStatus in 2022.

Career

Stanley Bruckenstein earned his PhD in chemistry (1954) at the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota. He has distinguished himself as a teacher, mentor, and researcher through his contributions to analytical chemistry.

His academic career began at the University of Minnesota as an instructor. He was became the Chief of the Division of Analytical Chemistry after Piet Koltoff's retirement in 1964, Iz.Kolthoff and J.Koskikallio nominated him for the Nobel Prize in 1967.

In 1968, he left the University of Minnesota to join the faculty at the University of Buffalo, where he was chairman and Conger Goodyear Professor. An accomplished author and editor, he published approximately 185 papers (since 1975), which have been cited 3,589 times.

Research

Bruckenstein worked in several diverse areas of chemistry. Stanley Bruckenstein practiced  Piet Kolthoff's radical scientific approach to analysis, which is now the standard.

They included acid-base titrimetry, electrometric analysis and conductometry, potentiometry, electron transfer, gravimetric analysis, precipitation reactions, polarographic analysis (voltammetry), amperometric titrations, and emulsion polymerization, among others. His reputation for combining fundamental theory and practical application in his work were characteristic throughout his career.[4]

Teaching

Bruckenstein mentored doctoral students in chemistry at the University of Minnesota and SUNYAB. His graduate students included Robert Hillman, Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Leicester.

Professional contributions

He received awards, including the Reilley Award, the leading U.S. electrochemistry award, and the American Chemical Society Award in electrochemistry. He served on many journal editorial boards and boards at the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Science, the StanlFood and Drug Administration, and the Electrochemical Society.

Position in History

Under the sponsorship of Piet Koltoff, Bruckenstein was a key player in the development of the rotating electrode. The theoretical foundation goes to Russians Frumkin and Levich. Bruckenstein went to Moscow in 1964 to work directly with them.

The idea of instrumentation, initially developed in the Soviet Union during the Cold War,  became widely known as a powerful electroanalytical tool via the publication of a seminal series of theoretical papers by Albery, Bruckenstein, Johnson, and Napp.

Personal life and activism

In 1963,  Piet Koltoff dispatched Stanley Bruckenstein, under the aegis of the NSF, to open communication between the USSR and American nuclear scientists. During World War II, Kolthoff worked with the Rockefeller Foundation to relocate European scientists who were persecuted by Nazis to universities in the U.S. Following World War II, he traveled to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia to build cooperation with scientists there.[1] They lived in a KGB ‘guarded’  hotel called Hotel South (гостиница южная ).  The French engineers who built  Chernobyl Nuclear Reactors lived next door. 

Basement  in Minneapolis part of the Cold War Civil Defense Effort

Civil defense strategies proposed at the start of the Eisenhower administration (1953) shifted from bomb shelters to the more economical option of mass evacuation, in which urban populations, under local government direction, would transport themselves out of their cities by automobile in orderly waves upon receiving news of an incoming attack. Given the ever-diminishing warning time implicit in intercontinental ballistic missile technology (nuclear weapons could now be guided and self-propelled over long distances, no longer delivered by relatively slow bomber aircraft)—and the logistical and traffic problems inherent in the idea to begin with—Stanley spoke openly to his family that if the bomb fell, nobody would survive.

Believing that nuclear testing contaminated cattle feed grains, his children were discouraged from drinking dairy products.

Awards and honors

Awards

Bruckenstein was a include Fellow at the American Academy of Sciences and the Electrochemical Society, the Faraday Medal (Goldbaum, 1994) from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Charles N. Reilly Award and the Distinguished Service Award, among others.

• Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient - Institute of Technology, 2010

• Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences, 2006
• Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, Inc., 1999
• Electrochemistry, Analytical Division of American Chemical Society, 1997

Faraday Medal, Electrochemical Group, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994 - The Faraday Medal is given every two years to a distinguished electrochemist who is working outside the United Kingdom. Bruckenstein accepted the award in September 1994, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Along with the award he gave a lecture on "Studies of Monolayer and Thicker Electrode Surface Films Using the Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance." (Goldbaum, 1994)

• Charles N. Reilly Award of the Society for Electrochemistry, 1991 - Leading U.S. award for electrochemistry (University of Minnesota History, n.d.)
• Heyrovsky Centennial Medal, Heyrovsky Centennial Congress on Polarography, 1988
• Jacob F. Schoellkopf Award, Western New York Section of the ACS, 1987
• Distinguished Service Award, Analytical Group of the Western New York Section of the ACS and Niagara Frontier Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 1974
• Silver Medal in Analytical Chemistry of Hiroshima University, Japan, 1972

Stanley Bruckenstein has served on many journal editorial boards and on boards at the National Science Foundation, National Academy of Science, Food and Drug Administration, and the Electrochemical Society.