The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, referred to internationally as Pittcon, is a non-profit educational organization based in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

that organizes an annual Conference and Exposition on

laboratory A laboratory (; ; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratories are found in a variety of settings such as schools ...

science. It is sponsored by the

Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra. In narrower contexts, spectroscopy is the precise study of color as generalized from visible light to all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectrosc ...

and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. The Conference has traditionally been the most attended annual conference on

analytical chemistry Analytical skill, Analytical chemistry studies and uses instruments and methods to Separation process, separate, identify, and Quantification (science), quantify matter. In practice, separation, identification or quantification may constitute t ...

and

applied spectroscopy Applied spectroscopy is the application of various spectroscopy, spectroscopic methods for the detection and identification of different chemical element, elements or Chemical compound, compounds to solve problems in fields like forensics, medic ...

in the world, with attendance of approximately 20,000 people in the period of 2005-2011. Pittcon presents several

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each year to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the various fields in

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