James E. Huheey
James Edward Huheey (born August 2, 1935 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American chemist ( inorganic chemistry ) and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park .
Huheey studied chemistry at the University of Cincinnati with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's degree in 1959 and a doctorate in inorganic chemistry in 1961. After that, he was from 1961 Assistant Professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1965 at the University of Maryland, where he was made a full professorship in 1975.
In 1986 he was visiting professor at UCLA . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
He dealt with the chemistry of phosphorus, nitrogen and sulfur, Lewis acids and bases, electronegativity. Huheey is known for a textbook on inorganic chemistry with Ellen A. Keiter (1942-2019) and Richard L. Keiter (1939-2018). Ellen and Richard Keiter were students of Huheey and taught at Eastern Illinois University.
In addition to chemistry, he deals with herpetology and is a Fellow of the United States National Museum. His specialty are salamanders from the southern Appalachians and he also examined skin toxins from salamanders.
Fonts
- with Ellen Keiter, Richard Keiter: Inorganic Chemistry: Principles of Structure and Reactivity, 4th edition, Prentice-Hall 1997 (first Harper and Row 1975, 3rd edition Harper 1983)
- German edition (editor Ralf Steudel ): Inorganic Chemistry: Principles of Structure and Reactivity , 4th edition, De Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-024907-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huheey, James E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huheey, James Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio |