Edmund R. Malinowski

Edmund R. Malinowski (October 1932 – February 2020) was an American professor of chemistry and is considered to be one of the great pioneers of the field of chemometrics. He published over 70 research papers and his 1980 book, Factor Analysis in Chemistry is acknowledged to be the first text on factor analysis applied to chemistry. Malinowski is credited with having an “enormous impact” on the field of chemometrics and the researchers who followed him.

Education Edmund R. Malinowski was born in October 1932, in Mahanoy City, PA. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 1954. He obtained both a MS degree (1956) and PhD (1961) in physical chemistry at Stevens Institute of Technology, and was a Robert Crooks Stanley Graduate Fellow as a student during those years. His first paper on factor analysis was published in 1966.

List of Honors and Awards 1957 – 1959: Robert Crooks Stanley Graduate Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology 1977: Jess H. Research Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1994: Henry Morton Distinguished Professor Award, Stevens Institute of Technology 1997: Special Issue: In Honor of Professor Malinowski's Retirement, Journal of Chemometrics, 1998: Galactic Industries Award for Achievements in Chemometrics