Milton L. Lee
Milton L. Lee, co-founder and chief science officer at Axcend, Provo, has received the 2019 Giorgio Nota Medal from the Italian Chemical Society. Medal recipients are recognized for “significant achievement in capillary liquid chromatography,” a field of scientific instrumentation that determines the chemical composition of various liquids. The medal was presented at the 43rd annual International Symposium on Capillary Chromotography in Fort Worth, Texas. Lee is currently the Emeritus H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry at Brigham Young University and has been a member of the faculty since 1976. He also is a serial entrepreneur and has been involved in inventing, commercializing and transferring technology from his research laboratory at BYU into the private sector on four occasions. In addition to Axcend, he founded Torion Technologies in 2001 and Sensar Corp. in 1991, and co-founded Lee Scientific in 1984.
