Louis Meites

Background

Meites, Louis was born on December 6, 1926 in Baltimore. Son of Louis and Gertrude (Harand) Meites.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Middlebury College, 1945; Master of Arts, Harvard, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1947.

Career

Instructor, Princeton University, 1947-1948; faculty, Yale University, 1948-1955; assistant professor, Yale University, 1952-1955; faculty, Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, 1955-1968; professor of chemistry, Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, 1962-1968; professor of chemistry, Clarkson College Technology, Potsdam, New York, 1968-1984; department chairman chemistry, Clarkson College Technology, Potsdam, New York, 1968-1981; professor of chemistry, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia, 1984-1989; department chairman chemistry, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia, 1984-1988.

Achievements

• Louis Meites has been listed as a noteworthy Chemist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Polarographic techniques. With a forward by I. M. Kolthoff
  • Polarographic techniques
  • Polarographic techniques: With a foreword by I.M. Kolthoff
  • Electrochemical Data. Part 1: Organic, Organometallic, and Biochemical Sunstances (Pt.1)
  • Introduction to Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics (Pergamon Series in Analytical Chemistry, V. 1)

Interests

• Avocations: Research thermoanalytical and electroanalytical chemistry, controlled-potential electrolysis and coulometry, differential thermometry and ebulliometry, rates and mechanisms chemical reactions in solutions, theory potentiometric, other titration curves, data-handling techniques, machine interpretation of chemical data.

Connections

Married Thelma Steinberg, June 10, 1947(divorced 1979). Children: Judith Ann, Norman Louis, Robin Leslie. Married Ruth Schwartz Schaefer, January 10, 1979.

Father:

Louis Meites

Mother:

Gertrude (Harand) Meites

Spouse:

Ruth Schwartz Schaefer

Spouse:

Thelma Steinberg

child:

Robin Leslie Meites

child:

Norman Louis Meites

child:

Judith Ann Meites