Daniel W. Armstrong has over 35 years of experience in the field of chiral recognition, enantiomeric separations and the biological relevance thereof. He has over 740 publications, including 38 book chapters, one book “Use of ordered Media in Chemical Separations”, and 35 patents. His work has been cited ~ 48,500 times and he has an h-index of 111. He has given over 560 invited seminars and colloquia worldwide and has mentored over 100 Ph.D. graduates, the majority of whom were the first person in their families to ever attend college at any level. Considered the “Father” of micelle and cyclodextrin based separations, he elucidated the first chiral recognition mechanism by cyclodextrins, was the first to develop macrocyclic antibiotics as chiral selectors, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on the theory, mechanism and use of enantioselective molecular interactions. He is a leading proponent of the importance of D-amino acids in biological systems. Professor Armstrong also has synthesized more new ionic liquids (ILs) than anyone worldwide and has used these for separations and mass spectrometry. He is an expert on ILs of high thermal stability and he devised the most highly cited characterization criteria for all ILs. Many of these species have been commercialized. Over 30 different HPLC and GC columns that were originally developed in his laboratories have been commercialized and/or copied worldwide. His work and columns were in part responsible for the chromatography and electrophoresis-lead revolution in chiral separations over the last three decades. His work, in part, provided the impetus for the FDA to pass its 1992 guidelines regarding the separation of stereoisomeric drugs. Currently, the columns, chiral selectors and techniques he developed are known throughout the world of analytical enantiomeric separations. He developed ultra-fast separations into its current advanced and practical state. He invented modern techniques of separation-based peak processing which has enhanced the speed, resolution as well as quantitative aspects of all separations.