About the Authors Ji???í D???dina studied physical chemistry at Charles University in Prague. After obtaining his PhD from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1975, his research has focused on trace element analysis. He is currently a head of the Laboratory of Trace Element Analysis of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and has worked in the field of hydride generation for over fifteen years. He has authored a series of papers on hydride generation, the mechanism of hydride atomization in quartz-tube atomizers and on the graphite fu...