The Posthumous Nobel Prize in Chemistry

E. Thomas Strom is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), where he teaches organic and polymer chemistry. He came to UTA after retiring from Mobil in Dallas, where he worked 32 years as a research chemist studying oil field chemistry. His research interests are in the history of chemistry and the study of anion radicals by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. He received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Iowa, his
Master's degree in nuclear chemistry from UC Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from Iowa State University.

Vera V. Mainz is a retired Director of the NMR Lab in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics at Kansas Newman College her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley. She was elected to the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the History of Chemistry Division (HIST) of the ACS in 1995, and has served as Secretary-Treasurer since that time. Her interest in the HIST Division was
kindled when she presented her work on the chemical genealogy of the University of Illinois (UI) Chemistry Department at a HIST symposium on chemical genealogies in 1994.