Louis D. Quin, PhD, is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts.
John G. Verkade, PhD, is a professor at Iowa State University. In 1994 he and one of his graduate students were national winners of the BF Goodrich Collegiate Team Inventors Award for work on their patented superbase catalysts. In 1995 he won the Iowa State University LAS College Award for Excellence in Research. He has served as chairman of the Editorial Board of Chemical and Engineering News, and as an associate editor of Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon.