Milton L. Lee
Milton L. Lee, co-founder and chief science officer at Axcend Corp., Provo, recently was presented with the 2018 Csaba Horváth Memorial Award, presented annually by the Connecticut Separation Science Council to a top separation scientist. The award was presented during ceremonies at the 18th annual Csaba Horváth Memorial Award Symposium at the Yale University campus in Orange, Connecticut. Lee has been a member of the faculty of Brigham Young University since 1976 and is currently the Emeritus H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry. He is best known for his research in capillary separation techniques and mass spectrometry detection. He also is an entrepreneur and has been involved in inventing, commercializing and transferring technology from his research laboratory at BYU into the private sector. In addition to co-founding Axcend in 2018, he co-founded Lee Scientific in 1984, founded Sensar Corp. in 1991, and founded Torion Technologies in 2001.