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William C. Byrdwell, PhD, FAOCS (he/him/his)

Research Chemist
USDA ARS BHNRC
Beltsville, Maryland, United States

Dr. Byrdwell is a Research Chemist at the Methods and Application of Food Composition Laboratory, part of the Agricultural Research Service, the research branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Byrdwell wrote his dissertation on identification of the ‘Unknown Phospholipid’ in the human eye lens, and quantification of fluorophores in normal and cataractous lenses. Dr. Byrdwell took a position at the USDA’s National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, and published the first report of analysis of triacylglycerols (TAGs) using HPLC with APCI-MS. Then, Dr. Byrdwell took a position where he first and then routinely employed dual parallel mass spectrometers, using both APCI-MS and ESI-MS. He re-joined ARS in 2005, and has been analyzing fat-soluble vitamins and TAGs, combining three or four mass spectrometers employing complementary ionization methods (APCI-MS, APPI-MS, and ESI-MS) coupled to one, two, or three liquid chromatographs in multi-dimensional LCx/MSy techniques. Dr. Byrdwell has published >65 peer-reviewed articles, 10 book chapters, and been Editor/Co-Editor of three AOCS Press books. Dr. Byrdwell received the 2012 American Oil Chemists’ Society Analytical Division Herbert J. Dutton Award, presented the 2013 Society of Chemical Industry Julius Lewkowitsch Award Lecture, and in 2019 was awarded Fellow of the American Oil Chemists’ Society.

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