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Clinical Chemistry 50: 1871-1877, 2004. First published August 19, 2004; 10.1373/clinchem.2004.030411
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(Clinical Chemistry. 2004;50:1871-1877.)
© 2004 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

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Fifty Years of Clinical Chemistry, Three Pioneering Editors

Carl A. Burtis1, Bernard Klein1, Jack Ladenson2, Louis Rosenfeld1, John Savory3, Irving Sunshine1 and Mitchell G. Scott2,a

1 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
2 Division of Laboratory Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
3 Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA.

aAuthor for correspondence.

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Dr. Harold D. Appleton, a Dedicated Beginning

When Dr. Harold D. Appleton took over the small, semi-regular newsletter, The Clinical Chemist, from Dr. Andre Kibrick, he "ate, drank and slept ‘The Clinical Chemist,’" according to Irving Sunshine, PhD. Dr. Appleton took over as editor in 1950 after working for 1 year as assistant editor under Dr. Kibrick. During his editorship, Appleton developed the newsletter into an excellent format of 12–20 pages per issue that included short review articles, abstracts, and descriptions of methods as well as news of the American Association of Clinical Chemists (AACC) (1). In addition, he introduced more advertising so that the newsletter could become self-supporting (1).

Meeting several times between 1952 and 1954, the executive board of the fledgling AACC discussed whether an archived journal in clinical chemistry would be a viable endeavor and finally agreed to initiate one in 1954. In the September 1952 issue of The Clinical Chemist, Dr. Appleton foreshadowed the coming of our Journal by writing, ‘With the increase in membership dues in 1953 earmarked for the expansion of the newsletter, we hope to bring to our readers review articles of current scientific interest written by noted investigators and to slowly open our pages to original research. This will serve as the nucleus for a future "Journal of Clinical Chemistry".’ In this same issue he urges AACC members to recruit advertising for The Clinical Chemist and wrote, "A page of advertising means another 2000 word article." At its April 14, 1954, Executive Committee meeting the association approved beginning a journal, Clinical Chemistry. This was announced by Dr. Appleton in the June 1954 issue of The Clinical Chemist, when he wrote, ‘this more elaborate effort [the expanded Clinical Chemist] also proved inadequate for the needs and the Association has now decided to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


J. Stanton King—Considering the Reader


David E. Bruns, MD—Looking to the Future




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