Chemometrics in a Historical Context

It happens that this paper is published a year after the 10-th anniversary of the Chemo-metric Society, which was founded by Wold en Kowalski, who also coined at the time the word Chemometrics as a title for a new subdivision of analytical chemistry using the methods described in previous sections. 

The current interest of analytical chemists may be read from the Chemometric Society Newsletter distribution list (table 2). 

Two major developments in the past decade increased the impact of Chemometrics the development of computers and micro-electronics and the advancement of analytical instrumentation. 

In a lecture given to the Analytical Division of the Royal Chemical Society, Bet-teridge summarized the impact of these developments on analytical chemistry as providing solutions to barriers to analytical information, giving rise to new problems (table 3). I will follow his lines to discuss the evolution of Chemometrics in its historical context. 

1960 s Data acquisition Digitisers Masses of data and results 

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