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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