Dr. James D. Winefordner
Personal Information:
James D. Winefordner, born December
31st, 1931, in Geneseo, Illinois, is the man. He is the first of two sons
of Carl and Marjorie Winefordner. Due to a series of unusual circumstances
influenced by the Korean war, Jim did all of his B.S., M.S. and Ph. D.
studies at the University of Illinois. He was awarded the Doctorate of
Philosophy degree in August of 1958. He stayed on as a post doctoral asssociate
for a period of one year. Jim shed his winter coat and came to the University
of Florida in 1959 as an Assistant Professor in Analytical Chemistry. His
start-up budget was $5,000 ($28758.35 corrected for inflation). He quickly
moved from the world of electrochemistry (JDW's Ph.D. Dissertation was
on null-point potentiometry) to spectrochemical analysis. Since then Jim
has been a pioneer in the fields of atomic and molecular spectroscopy,
publishing over 870 papers and book chapters and supervising 169 Ph.D.
students (as well as dozens of masters students, postdoctoral associates,
and visiting scientists). Jim has served as the editor of John Wiley and
Sons' Chemical Analysis series, and has been on the editorial advisory
board for several journals and national organizations. Over the years
Jim has accomplished many remarkable tasks and has received many awards,
all of which can be learned about in his resume.
Perhaps the best way to learn
about Jim, however, is by reading his "Personal views and motivations of
a teacher and a scientist" published in the Special Honor Issue of Spectrochimica
Acta Part B, dedicated to J.D. Winefordner (Spectrochimica Acta
Part B, Vol. 49, Nos 12-14, pp.1205-1208, 1994). It is in this
publication that Jim speaks of the most influential scientists in his life
and his philosophies on teaching and life.
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