Emil J. Slowinski, Ph.D., earned a bachelor of science from Massachusetts State College in 1946 and a doctorate in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. Over the course of his prolific teaching career, he taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Connecticut and Macalester College. His sabbatical leaves were taken at Oxford University and the University of Warsaw. He was a co-author, working with other authors like Bill Masterton and Wayne Wolsey, of more than 25 books in various areas of general chemistry. Even after retiring, Dr. Slowinski was actively involved in editions one through nine of Chemical Principles in the Laboratory, and after leaving active writing he offered insights, advice and support to his coauthors; he remains the main content source of this edition. Dr. Slowinski was an Emeritus DeWitt Wallace Professor of Chemistry at Macalester College until his death in 2015.
