The start and early history of chemometrics: Selected interviews. Part 1

Abstract

AbstractThis is a first foray into the historical start and early years of chemometrics from about 1972 onwards. We have gathered interviews with three originators (Kowalski, Wold and Massart) as well as with a selected group of six other well‐known chemometricians who gradually became active in the 1970s (Christie, Clementi, Hopke, Martens, Brown and Deming). The interviews include amongst a host of subjective recollections a succinct record of the key historical literature as highlighted by the interviewees' own rankings of ‘earliest’ and ‘best’.A discussion of the most general commonalities in these interviews together with other historical material is presented in the second part of the paper.