FEBRUARY 2009 -The Zdenek Herman Honor Issue of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry appeared in February.

International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2009, 280 (1-3), Pages 1-3.

The carrier of Prof. Herman is outlined in the article “Zdenek Herman - An Ambassador of Science” from Veronica M. Bierbaum (University of Colorado, US).

This special issue of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry honors Professor Zdenek Herman on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, and for his seminal contributions to physical chemistry that span half a century. Through these collected papers, Zdenek's colleagues and friends gratefully acknowledge his pioneering studies in diverse areas of mass spectrometry, including kinetics and dynamics of ion-molecule processes, Penning and associative ionization, and ion-surface interactions...

The National Award of the Government of the Czech Republic
"ČESKÁ HLAVA 2003" (Czech Intellect).
Ilustrative photo (source Czech TV)