Jerome J. Workman Jr. is an American analytical spectroscopist, author, and editor born on August 6, 1952, in Northfield, Minnesota. Jerry Workman Jr. and J.J. Workman are also names he uses for publishing.

Education

Workman studied at

Saint John's University (Minnesota) The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University are two closely related private, Catholic higher education institutions in Minnesota. The College of Saint Benedict is a women's college located in St. Joseph, while Saint John's Univ ...

and Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, earning a B.A. (''

cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sou ...

)'' and an M.A. While at St. John's Workman played rugby and was co-captain of the wrestling team where he was twice Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Champion (1971,1974), and was also a National Catholic Intercollegiate Tournament (NCIT) Champion and was voted Outstanding Wrestler of the NCIT Tournament in 1972. As a student at St. Mary's University of Minnesota, he was the head wrestling coach from 1976 to 1978. He went on to earn his Ph.D. at

Columbia Pacific University Columbia Pacific University (CPU) was a non-traditional distance learning school in California. It was founded in 1978 by Richard Crews and Lester Carr, a former president of Lewis University, and operated with state approval. Distance learning ...

. Later, he entered the Columbia Executive Program at the

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one ...

, completing the Columbia Senior Executive Program, the Certificate in Business Excellence, and the Certificate of Executive Development. At MIT Sloan School of Management he did further studies for a Certificate in Strategy and Innovation.

Career

Workman has published multiple reference text volumes, including the three-volume ''Academic Press Handbook of Organic Compounds'', and five-volume ''The Concise Handbook of Analytical Spectroscopy''. He has received the

Williams–Wright Award The Williams–Wright Award is an award that honors extraordinary or outstanding work in spectroscopic measurements while working in an industrial setting. The award has been given by the Coblentz Society annually since 1978 with the Awardee being ...

, the

ASTM International Award of Merit The ASTM International Award of Merit is an award that was established in the industrial era following World War II as a response to the growing need to recognize outstanding contributions to the leadership and authorship of consensus standards for ...

, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award, and the New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal Award for his considerable volume of publications, reviews, and books. He, along with co-author Howard L. Mark, have published over 150 successive columns on

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

and chemometrics for ''

Spectroscopy Magazine ''Spectroscopy'' is a trade magazine published since 1985. ''Spectroscopy'' has an editorial goal to promote and support the use of spectroscopic instrumentation in applied research, environmental testing, quality control, and the life sciences. ...

'' since 1986. Workman has held appointments with the

U.S. National Academies The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (also known as NASEM or the National Academies) are the collective scientific national academy of the United States. The name is used interchangeably in two senses: (1) as an umbrell ...

NRC panel for Assessment of

NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

Programs from 2005 to 2007 and was given the U.S. Department of Commerce Certificate of Appreciation in 2007. He has served as executive editor (editor-in-chief) of ''

Spectroscopy Letters ''Spectroscopy Letters'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for rapid communications about work on a wide variety of spectroscopic methods covering all aspects of spectroscopy. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed b ...

'', appointed 1999–2003; associate editor, ''

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews ''Applied Spectroscopy Reviews'' is a peer reviewed scientific journal that publishes review articles on all aspects of spectroscopy. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed by the Science Citation Index and Current Conten ...

'' (New York), appointed 1999–2004; editorial advisory board, and ''

'' (Oregon) since 1995 in addition to many others appointments. He was a Charter Member of U.S. Food and Drug Administration PAT and Chemometrics Committee in 2002. Workman has also served on numerous chemical and scientific advisory boards. Workman is also the holder of numerous patents. Contributed to research and development for multiple commercial instruments and algorithms for laboratory, process, and clinical monitoring.

Additional sources

* Williams–Wright Award Announcement * Chemical & Engineering News announces

Pittcon The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, referred to internationally as Pittcon, is a non-profit educational organization based in Pennsylvania that organizes an annual Conference and Exposition on laboratory sc ...

Research Awards 2009 * ASTM International News *MIT Technology Review Blue is for Biohazard *J. Workman Publications
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Workman, Jerome J. Jr. 1952 births Living people Writers from Minnesota People from Northfield, Minnesota American science writers 21st-century American chemists Saint Mary's University of Minnesota alumni College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University alumni Columbia Business School alumni