SensNews May 2020

15 Sensor100 2020 Giants in Sensing:AVirtual Issue to Celebrate FiveYears of ACS Sensors As ACS Sensors celebrates its first five years of publication, it has taken the opportunity to honour people who have been central in shaping the field.To most scientists, chem- ical and biological sensing is a thoroughly modern discipline. It is unashamedly inter- disciplinary, marrying fundamental insights and the foundations of analytical chemistry, state of the art materials science, bioengi- neering, electrochemistry, optics, biology, clinical and environmental chemistry. It addresses important measurement science challenges that face us today.This is what motivates many of us to contribute to this important field.Together with Analytical Chemistry and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, we present a virtual issue on Giants in Sensing featuring some fifty articles from influential sensing researchers who have contributed to any of these journals in the past five years. Edited by: Eric Bakker, Ciara K. O’Sullivan, Paul S. Cremer ACS Sensors Virtual Issue [Sensor100 would not presume to argue with ACS Sensors, but may we point out that sensing technology is not that modern!. Haber's pH electrode appeared in 1909, Clark's pO 2 elec- trode in 1953, Frant and Ross described the fluoride ISE in 1966, between 1967 and 1968 a flurry of new ISE's emerged.,Willie Simon's valinomycin potassium electrode in 1969, and Jiri Janata's ISFET appeaed in 1974. I seemed to have lost a reference I had of an antimony electrode for gastric pH measurement used in the 19th century - if anyone can recall it I would appreciate a reminder. Finally, could we encourage Elsevier to produce a volume of 50 leading publications from their Biosensor journals?]