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OPINION Reactions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2020, 98 (19), p 3May 18, 2020Cite this:C&EN 98, 19, 3AbstractLetters to the editor Fiber optics and gas chromatography As usual, Mitch Jacoby has written an article, “A Way Forward for Optical Fibers” (C&EN, March 16, 2020, page 28), that is worthy of study. Analytical chemists should also take note. Jacoby points out that after Charles K. Kao’s pioneering work with optical fibers, commercialization largely by telecom companies took off in the 1980s. Much before that time, a meeting took place in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1957 when Marcel Golay introduced the idea of open-tubular capillary gas chromatography columns. The pioneering work of Raymond Dandeneau and E. H. Zerenner (J. High Resolut. Chromatogr. Chromatogr. Commun. 1979, DOI: 10.1002/jhrc.1240020617) at Hewlett-Packard led to the fused silica wall-coated open-tubular (WCOT) gas chromatographic column that revolutionized the practice of gas chromatography. A nice look at how WCOT GC columns evolved using fused silica—the same as that used in fiber-optic communications—can be found inView: PDF | Full Text HTML