Lloyd R. Snyder

Snyder received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1954. Between 1954 and 1971 he carried out research on the chemical composition of petroleum at Shell Oil and Union Oil (now Unocal), work that ended with the first complete characterization of the heterocompound types in a heavy petroleum distillate. During this time, he also contributed to the introduction and further development of HPLC, and created a general model for retention in adsorption chromatography.

From 1971 to 1982, he carried out research at the Technicon Corporation which included the application of HPLC to clinical chemistry. During this time, he and Jack Kirkland created an ACS short course on HPLC that was presented for the next 25 years to almost 10,000 students.

In 1982 he became a private consultant, and in 1984 he and John Dolan formed LC Resources a company specializing in various HPLC-related products: software (DryLabR),  training and laboratory services.

Snyder was an editor of the Journal of Chromatography between 1987 and 2000, and an adjunct professor at Pace University from 1980-86. He is the author or co-author of seven books on chromatography and more than 300 publications. The second edition of Introduction to Modern Liquid Chromatography (Wiley, 1979, with Jack Kirkland as co-author) has sold over 22,000 copies and is still in print. He has received more than a dozen national and international awards for his work in chromatography, including three from the ACS. His current research interests include reversed-phase column selectivity and gradient elution. He and John Dolan are completing a book on gradient elution that is scheduled for publication in 2006.