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Thomas H Ridgway


Tom Ridgway
Professor, Chemistry

B.S., University of North Carolina, 1964
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971

Biography

Tom Ridgway is an Analytical Chemist with research interests in electrochemical and optical sensors, instrument design and remote sensing. His PhD research with Professor Charles N Reilley involved both theoretical electrochemistry, particularly Spectroelectrochemistry, and the development of computer controlled chemical instrumentation. He stayed on at Chapel Hill for a post doctorate to be part of a team that developed the first microprocessor based laboratory data acquisition and control computer. He joined the Chemistry Department of the University of Cincinnati in the fall of 1976. He is a past member of the instrumentation advisory board of Analytical Chemistry and, former secretary of the Computers in Chemistry division of the American Chemical Society and an alternate councilor of the local section of the ACS. He is also member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry.

Research: Analytical Chemistry

  • Microcontroller based chemical instrumentation
  • Remote sensors
  • Spectroelectrochemical sensors



Contact Information
502 Crosley
P.O. Box 210172
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
phone: 513-556-9246
fax: 513-556-9239
ridgwath@uc.edu
http://www.che.uc.edu/


Last updated Friday, September 15, 2006

 


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