Robert D BraunRobert D. Braun received the B.A. degree in chemistry from the University of Colorado- Boulder, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Connecticut-Storrs. He has taught analytical chemistry and other courses at the Univrsity of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the University of Illinois-Urbana, Vassar College -Poughkeepsie, New York, and for 31 years he was at the University of Louisiana -Lafayette. From 1992-2008 he was head of the chemistry department at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He retired in 2008. He is the author of "Introduction to Chemical Analysis", McGraw-Hill, 1982, coauthor of "Applications of Chemical Analysis", McGraw-Hill, 1982, and of entries in the New Encyclopedia Britannica (1993) and the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, 1997. He has numerous publications in technical and chemical education journals. Currently he is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society and the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. Read More Read Less