Professor Isiah M. Warner, Chair of the Department of Chemistry. I got a chemistry set for Christmas when I was ten and that really peaked my interest. I felt that the work wasn't as challenging as I wanted it to be. That encouraged me to go onto graduate school. The Ph.D. was from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1977.
Analytical chemistry is the branch of chemistry that is concerned with the composition of matter.
I love my job. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. Chemistry hasn't really changed. We have continued to add to our knowledge of chemistry. As an analytical chemist, I am very interested in instrumentation involved in chemistry.