Dr. Laurence Peterson

The author has B.S. (Chemistry) - Duke University and Ph.D. (Chemistry) - Yale University.  He has 20 years of industrial experience with The Dow Chemical Company (Research Scientist, Laboratory Director), Rohm & Haas (Business Development, Research Director), BASF (VP - R&D), and Celanese (VP - Research).  Also, he was President/Founder of Vista Business Systems (Personal Computers) and President/ Founder of The Venture Group, Ltd.

He is Dean Emeritus & Professor of Chemistry from the College of Science & Mathematics, Kennesaw State University where he was Dean for thirteen years.  Previously, he was Department Head of Chemistry & Biochemistry at South Dakota State University. He was PI for a $1 million National Science Foundation ITEST grant to introduce under-represented HS students to careers in the computing sciences and PI/co-author of ChemCases.com, a website to teach General Chemistry using case study methodology  funded by a $300,000 NSF grant.