Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity (10th Edition) – eBook

About The Author

David Treichel

Dr. David A. Treichel is a Professor of Chemistry at Nebraska Wesleyan University. He got a B.A. degree from Carleton College, M.S., and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry at Northwestern University. After post-doctoral research at the University of Texas in Austin, he joined the faculty at Nebraska Wesleyan University. His research interests are in the fields of surface-laser spectroscopy and electrochemistry.

John C. Kotz

Dr. John C. Kotz is an emeritus State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor at the College at Oneonta. Educated at Lee University, Washington University, and Cornell University, he held National Institutes of Health postdoctoral appointments at the University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (UK) and at Indiana University. Dr. Kotz has co-authored 3 textbooks in several editions - Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity (now in the tenth edition), Inorganic Chemistry, and The Chemical World. He also has published research on inorganic chemistry and electrochemistry.

Professor John Kotz was a Fulbright Lecturer and Research Scholar in Portugal in 1979 and a visiting professor there in 1992, as well as a visiting professor at the Institute for Chemical Education (the University of Wisconsin, 1991-1992) and at Auckland University in New Zealand (1999). In addition, a recent tenure as a mentor of the U.S. Chemistry Olympiad Team, John has received numerous honors, including a National Catalyst Award for Excellence in Teaching (1992), State University of New York Chancellor's Award (1979), the Estee Lectureship in Chemical Education at the University of South Dakota (1998), the Visiting Scientist Award from the Western Connecticut Section of the American Chemical Society (1999), and the 1st annual Distinguished Education Award from the Binghamton (New York) Section of the American Chemical Society (2001) among others.

John Townsend

Dr. John R. Townsend, Professor of Chemistry at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania, earned his B.A. in Chemistry as well as the Approved Program for Teacher Certification in Chemistry at the University of Delaware. After a career teaching high school mathematics and science, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry at Cornell University, where he also received the DuPont Teaching Award for his work as a teaching assistant. After teaching at Bloomsburg University, he joined the faculty at West Chester University, where he coordinates the chemistry education program for prospective high school teachers and the general chemistry lecture program for science majors.

Dr. Townsend has been the university supervisor for more than 60 prospective high school chemistry teachers during their student teaching semester. His research interests are in the fields of biochemistry and chemical education. It focused on the formation and hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds between nucleosides in RNA.

Paul M. Treichel

Dr. Paul M. Treichel got his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1958 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962. After a year of postdoctoral study in London, he got a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul served as department chair from 1986 through 1995 and was awarded a Helfaer Professorship in 1996. He has held visiting faculty positions in Japan and South Africa. Retiring after 44 years as a faculty member in 2007, he is currently an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. During his faculty career, he taught courses in inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, general chemistry, and scientific ethics. Professor Treichel's research in organometallic and metal cluster chemistry and in mass spectrometry, aided by 75 graduate and undergraduate students, has led to more than 170 papers in scientific journals.