Professor Olav Kvalheim, Kemiska institutionen, Bergen universitet, Norge, har tilldelats den sjätte Herman Wold medaljen under SSC9, (Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics), som gick av stapeln i Reykjavik Island under augusti 2005.

Bild: Olav Kvalheim, Bergen universitet. Eftersom han inte kunde närvara under SSC9 mötet, skedde utdelningsceremonin under Vintermötet i Duved, feb 2006, som organiserades av Kemometrisektionen, svenska kemistsamfundet.

Juryns motivering: “Professor Olav Kvalheim receives the sixth Herman Wold medal for his pioneering work and never-failing enthusiasm to an objective-driven problem solving in analytical chemistry and in real-word process industry using the and developing the chemometrical toolbox. His contributions within curve resolution e.g. HELP and his early ideas on target rotation and always keeping a focus on building models, which can be interpreted and understood from a chemical point of view. He has strongly contributed to chemometrics and its application of the methods to real problems and thereby increasing the knowledge of underlying mechanisms within a number of areas.”

Torbjörn Lundstedt,
Ordförande, Kemometrisektionen, Svenska Kemistsamfundet.