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E. Thomas Strom Dr. E. Thomas (Tom) Strom is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), where he teaches organic and polymer chemistry. He came to UTA after retiring from Mobil in Dallas, where he worked 32 years as a research chemist studying oil field chemistry. He was Chair of the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry in 2011-2012. His research interests are in the history of chemistry and the study of anion radicals by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. He was one of the initial ACS Fellows and is a past winner of the Dallas-Fort Worth ACS Section’s Doherty Award. He received his B.S.Chem degree from the University of Iowa, his M.S.Chem degree in nuclear chemistry from UC-Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from Iowa State University working under mentor Glen A. Russell. Previously he has co-edited two volumes in the ACS Symposium Series: "100+ Years of Plastics. Leo Baekeland and Beyond" (2011) and "Pioneers of Quantum Chemistry" (2013).
Vera V. Mainz Dr. Vera Mainz is retired Director of the NMR Lab in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics at Kansas Newman College (1976), a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley (1981, with R. A. Andersen), spent 1-1/2 years working at Rohm and Haas in Springhouse, PA, and had a postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1983-1985) before becoming Director of the NMR Lab. She was elected to the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the History of Chemistry Division (HIST) of the ACS in 1995, and has served as Secretary-Treasurer since that time. Her interest in the HIST Division was kindled when she presented her work on the chemical genealogy of the University of Illinois (UI) Chemistry Department at a HIST symposium on chemical genealogies in 1994. She has continued her work in this area, posting her information to a website at http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/ ~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/, and plans to update this project when her schedule allows. Vera’s interest in the history of chemistry led her and her husband, Gregory Girolami, to co-curate two exhibits at the Univ. of Illinois’ Rare Book Room: 1) From Alchemy to Chemistry: Five Hundred Years of Rare and Interesting Books, http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/exhibit/; 2) Crystallography – Defining the Shape of Our Modern World, found online at URL http://www.scs.illinois.edu/ xray_exhibit/. Vera was a member of the ACS Fellows Class of 2012, which © 2015 American Chemical Society Strom and Mainz; The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2015.
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honored her contributions to the ACS (HIST and local section service) and the many students she has helped while working in the NMR Lab.
306 Strom and Mainz; The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2015.
