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Robert Jones delivers his Heritage Lecture at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry. | Photo Credit: © Will Wetzel

At the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Robert L. Jones, who recently retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discussed his career at the CDC, and how his work with inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) assisted in addressing pivotal public health crises.

Holistic medicine approach. Healthy food eating, dietary supplements, healing herbs and flowers. Turmeric, dried lavender, spirulina powder in wooden bowls, fresh berries, omega acid capsules | Image Credit: © jchizhe - stock.adobe.com

Award recipient John McLean of Vanderbilt University said hybrid techniques do not exist purely as combinations of letters, slashes, and hyphens—they have been built on the shoulders of decades’ worth of analysis intended to refine and simplify workflow.