September 2004

Tom Goehl Honored: Outstanding Contributions to Chemical Health and Safety

Tom Goehl, editor-in-chief of Environmental Health Perspectives, was honored last month at the annual American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia. Environmental Health Perspectives is the journal for the National Institute of Environmental Health Perspectives, one of the National Institutes of Health. The journal is available free of charge on the Internet at http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/.

Last month, Goehl received the Division of Chemical Health and Safety's Howard Fawcett Award for Outstanding Contributions to Chemical Health and Safety. Goehl served as science editor of EHP from 1994 until 2001, when he took over as editor-in-chief.

"In that time... he has been almost single-handedly responsible for the efficacy and effectiveness of that journal. Under his guidance and leadership it has become the outstanding publication with the superior recognition that it now enjoys. Without his exceptional and outstanding contributions to the considerable time and effort necessary that have been required for that journal to reach its present premium reputation, it would be what it once was, a mere glimmer in the field to which it now has contributed so much," said Jay Young, chemical consultant, who nominated Goehl for the award.