David M. Goodall

David M. Goodall (10 March 1941 – 15 January 2025) was a British chemist. He was Emeritus Professor of chemistry affiliated with the University of York (UK). Throughout his career he made a considerable impact on the field of analytical chemistry.

Achievements Professor Goodall was one of the inventors of the UV imaging detection approach for applications in microscale chemical analysis. His scientific achievements include: development of separation methods based on capillary electrophoresis, real time visualisation of separations and reactions, imaging dissolution of pharmaceutical dosage forms, and high-sensitivity multiplexed detection in capillary electrophoresis and capillary liquid chromatography.

Representative publications "Real-time image acquisition for absorbance detection and quantification in thin-layer chromatography." M Lancaster, D M Goodall, E T Bergström, S McCrossen and P Myers, Analytical Chemistry, 2006, 78, 905–911. "A charge coupled device (CCD) array detector for single- and multi-wavelength ultraviolet absorbance in capillary electrophoresis." Bergstrom, E.T.; Goodall, D.M.; Allinson, N M; Pokric, B., Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 71, No. 19, 1999, p. 4376-4384.