The Gerald S. Birth Award 2022 goes to Professor Christian Huck

The Gerald S. Birth Award for outstanding innovation in diffuse reflection or diffuse transmission spectroscopy is conferred and sponsored by the Council for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (CNIRS) in memory of Gerald Birth. The late Dr. Birth was the founder of the International Diffuse Reflectance Conference (IDRC), also sponsored by the CNIRS. He made many contributions to the instrument technology relat-ed to diffuse reflectance. This award recognizes a spe-cific accomplishment in advancing the Art and Science of Near Infrared Spectroscopy by a research scientist and has been assigned since 2004 each second year to an outstanding NIR spectroscopist (Table 1). In 2022, award for-warded IDRC Zoom