Editors’ Biographies
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Alexander B. Morgan Alexander B. Morgan received his B.S in Chemistry from Virginia Military Institute in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of South Carolina in 1998. He has worked as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and as a research chemist at the Dow Chemical Company. He is currently a Distinguished Research Scientist and Group Leader at the University of Dayton Research Institute where he works on a variety of material science and material flammability projects. He is on the editorial review boards of Fire and Materials and the Journal of Fire Science, and is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Society for Testing and Materials, and Sigma Xi. Dr. Morgan has been in the flame retardant chemistry field for over 17 years and is the co-editor on four books on this topic with Prof. Charles Wilkie.
Charles A. Wilkie Charles A. Wilkie received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Detroit and his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Inorganic Chemistry. He immediately joined Marquette University as Assistant Professor, rising through the ranks until he retired as the Pfletschinger-Habermann Professor of Chemistry in 2009. He is currently Professor Emeritus. He was a FulbrightHays Scholar in 1991–1992, received the Milwaukee Section (ACS) Award in 1992, and the Marquette University Haggerty Award for Excellence in Research in 2007.
Gordon L. Nelson Gordon L. Nelson received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1965 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1967 and 1970, respectively (working with Dr. Kenneth B. Wiberg). Dr. Nelson is currently University Professor of Chemistry at Florida Institute of Technology. He previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs (2011) and Dean of the College of Science (1989–2010). Before joining Florida Tech, Dr. Nelson was Professor and Chair of the Department of Polymer Science at the University of Southern Mississippi, Vice President of Springborn Laboratories, and a manager © 2012 American Chemical Society In Fire and Polymers VI: New Advances in Flame Retardant Chemistry and Science; Morgan, A., et al.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2012.
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at GE Plastics. Dr. Nelson was 1992 Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (59 societies, 1.4 million members). He was 1988 President of the American Chemical Society and a member of its Board of Directors for fifteen years. He was the Charles Holmes Herty Medalist of the ACS Georgia Section in 1998. Dr. Nelson is editor/co-editor of 24 books, the author/coauthor of 33 book chapters and 165 papers, primarily in the areas of nanocomposites, polymer flammability, and smoke and toxicity studies.
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