José Luís Fontes da Costa Lima – An example to be followed

Abstract

I am very sad to communicate the death of the Emeritus Professor José Luís Fontes da Costa Lima, a leading chemist who made significant contributions to the development of Analytical Chemistry in Brazil. He graduated in Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, in 1970. After that, he spent 9 years at the service of Portugal in Africa. In 1985, he concluded the doctoral program in Chemistry, specialty Analytical Chemistry, being approved with distinction and praise. At the beginning of his scientific career, Prof. Costa Lima experienced important moments when, together with colleagues from Barcelona, proposed a flow-through sandwich PVC matrix membrane electrode for flow injection analysis and, in collaboration with renowned scientists from Wales, UK, proposed an ion-selective electrode without an inner reference solution.