About the Author.
Dr Alexander Scheeline is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is a Fellow and Honorary Member of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, as well as Founder and President of SpectroClick Inc., a firm developing hand-held spectrometers, and Founder and Vice-President of Anchor Science LLC, a materials development partnership. He has published over 130 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, and is known for his work in optical spectrometry, instrument design, sensors, ultrasonically levitated drops, oxidative stress, chemical kinetics, oscillatory chemical reactions, and the dynamics of nonlinear systems.
Education
1970-1974
B. S., Chemistry
Michigan State University
I did research with Prof. Stanley R. Crouch on heteropolymolybdate reaction kinetics for phosphate analysis. A graduate student's phosphorus detection limit using spark emission spectroscopy was better than my limit, so I moved on to studying emission spectroscopy.
1974-1978
Ph.D., Chemistry
University of Wisconsin - Madison
My graduate research was with Prof. John P. Walters on high voltage sparks, analyzing their spatiotemporal properties, modeling their control, and watching electrode plumes crash into each other.
1978-1979
NRC Post-doctoral Fellow
National Institute for Standards and Technology
Working with James DeVoe and John Travis, I coupled sparks and lasers. I also got interested in the metal droplets generated from spark sampling of metals.