Analytical Chemistry, Past, Present and Future*This paper is dedicated to the Editorial Board of Analytical Letters.

Abstract

ABSTRACT Analytical Chemistry as a science has its own history as well as an important present and a sure future. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the role of Analytical Chemistry as a science and of Chemical Analysis as an art in the development of human society. The correlation between method and instrument hyphenated by the sample is discussed along a long period of active Analytical Chemistry. The connection between theory of Analytical Chemistry and the practice of chemical analysis enables us to be sure of the future of Analytical Chemistry. We must consider that to do science it is necessary to know the history of science as well as to make research to be used not only in the present, but also in the near future. Surely, Analytical Chemistry as a real scientific area will be on the top of sciences in the next century.