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Brief Biography of Fred Lytle, Purdue University Fred E. Lytle received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Juniata College in 1964 and earned his Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. He joined the faculty at Purdue University that same year, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1974 and Professor in 1979. He was the Head of the Analytical Division at Purdue from 1979 to 1984. His research interests include the theory and application if absorption, fluorescence and phosphorescence spectroscopy; time resolved fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy; and two-photon spectroscopy. In 1982, he spent a sabbatical leave studying two-photon photonionization/mass spectrometry at the Center for Analytical Chemistry, National Bureau of Standards, Washington D.C. During his tenure at Purdue he has been awarded the Merck Company Faculty Development Award; voted the Outstanding Teacher in the School of Science for 1979; and received the Amoco Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1985. In 1986 he was the recipient of the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company. In 1988 he will be the recipient of the American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry sponsored by Fisher Scientific Company. He is currently serving a three year term on the National Bureau of Standards Panel for Analytical Chemistry and was a member of the National Science Foundation Chemistry Advisory Board from 1982 to 1985. He is an associate editor of Analytical Chemistry; and associate editor of Applied Spectroscopy; a member if the editorial board of Analytica Chimica Acta a member of the American Chemical Society, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and the Optical Society of America. |
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