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Charles Norwood Reilley
Charles Norwood Reilley
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Reilley went on to become an outstanding scholar in the field of analytical chemistry, with a fundamentally-oriented approach that strongly influenced the character and reputation of that discipline in the 1950s and 1960s. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
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in chemistry in 1947. He was a capable student and was honored with Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chi Sigma undergraduate chemistry awards for three years (1945-1947)
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Reilley recognized that measuring things was at the heart of modern chemistry, that everyone relied upon analytical measurements, and that it was the responsibility of the analytical chemist to outline their fundamental character. Today the analytical chemistry subdiscipline is a vibrant and respected science, in part owing to the leadership of Charles Reilley decades ago.
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Reilley's interest in detecting the completion of exact stoichiometric reactions led to a series of further works on detection of coulometric titration equivalence points. Because of the accuracy of controlling current for electrogeneration of reagents in quantitative reactions, coulometry was one of the earliest successful instrumental methods.
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W Schmid was one of the first in his laboratory to explore multidentate metal complexation as a means of selectivity in quantitative reactions, and to investigate ways to measure metal chelate complex formation constants in that context.
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about behavior of electrodes under constant currents when the electrode reactant supply was controlled strictly by diffusion only. Reilley carried out the first quantitative analytical study of this experiment, which was called chronopotentiometry according to the measurement of electrode potential as a function of time.
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The coordination chemistry of metal chelates continued as a major theme throughout Reilley's research career. He developed new chelate reagents and in 1965 calorimetrically assessed the thermodynamic principles underlying the "chelate effect" and their relevance to analytical measurements.
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In the early 1970s Reilley and his student Richard Van Duyne published three landmark papers that firmly established the power of lowered temperatures for detection and quantitative kinetic elucidation of chemical reactions accompanying electrochemical transformations. Reilley was active in early designs of data acquisition systems and computer-interfaced analytical instruments, and in the birth of the field of chemometrics, entered a collaboration with Thomas Isenhour through studies on computerized learning machines (e.g., pattern recognition and artificial intelligence)
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Reilley was recognized for his research accomplishments with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962, the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry (also known as the Fisher Award) in 1965, the Herty Medal in 1968, the Stone Award in 1971, the national ANACHEM Award in Analytical Chemistry of the Association of Analytical Chemists in 1972, and the Manufacturing Chemist's Association College Chemistry Teaching Award in 1975.
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Noting that "the pressure of new knowledge continually forces basic concepts into earlier stages of the curriculum," he advocated an "adiabatic transition from the traditional course." Reilley recognized the importance and revolutionizing impact that instrumental methods of measurement in chemistry were exerting in the late 1950s and the 1960s, and in effect proposed that they be taught beginning at the sophomore level in analytical chemistry courses. Making sophomore analytical chemistry into an introductory instrumental analysis course helped propel his department's program nationally into one of the most successful centers granting undergraduate degrees in chemistry.
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Reilley Award. The financial sponsorship for the award was provided by former Reilley student Peter Kissinger, who following a postdoctoral study with Ralph Adams and a successful academic career at Purdue University, founded the company Bioanalytical Systems.
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It was said that "he has the knack of leading the horse to water and patiently waiting for him to drink (or be traded in) ." I WAS A CLOSE PERSONAL friend of Charles Reilley, and shared an office suite.
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A rapid electrochemical method for the deter mination of metal chelate stability constants.
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Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of proto nation of polyamine and aminocarboxylate compounds in aque ous solution.
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Computerized learning machines applied to chemical problems: Investigation of convergence rate and predictive ability of adaptive binary pat tern classifiers.
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Chemical derivatization in electron spectros copy for chemical analysis of surface functional groups intro duced on low-density polyethylene film.
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