Horwitz, William, 1918-2006

found: Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (U.S.). Official methods of analysis of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 1965:(William Horwitz, editor)

found: Wikipedia, viewed July 4, 2019:William Horwitz (William Horwitz (1918 -- September 27, 2006 in Olney, Maryland) was an analytical chemist who is notable for formulating a description of the relationship between the variability of chemical measurements and the concentration of the analyte. This relationship, called the Horwitz curve applies only to the between-laboratory variability of measurements. Horwitz worked for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 57 years until his retirement in 2000 and was head of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists for 24 years ...) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Horwitz

found: Biography in Context (via library subscription), viewed July 4, 2019:"William Horwitz." American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Updated:Jan. 1, 2008 (Born: February 04, 1918 in Gilbert, Minnesota, United States ... ANALYTICAL FOOD CHEMISTRY. Education: Univ Chicago, BS, 1937; Univ Minn, MS, 1938, PhD (phys chem), 1947 ...)

found: Global Newsstream (via library subscription), viewed July 4, 2019:The Washington Post [Washington, D.C] 02 Oct 2006: B.6. Obituary (William Horwitz, 88, a food chemist and administrator at the Food and Drug Administration, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 27 at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney. He lived in Silver Spring. Dr. Horwitz, who was scientific advisor to the director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, worked for the agency for 61 years. For two dozen of those years, he was also executive director of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. He edited seven editions of the association's handbook the Official Methods of Analysis, the latest in 2000 ... Dr. Horwitz was born in Gilbert, Minn., graduated from the University of Chicago in 1937 and received his doctoral degree in physical chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1947. He joined the FDA in 1939 as a chemist in its Minneapolis lab, rising to the rank of chief chemist before moving to the Bureau of Foods in Washington in 1951 ...)