Jerald S. Bradshaw

Jerald S. Bradshaw is Professor of Chemistry at Brigham Young University, where this essay was originally presented as the Distinguished Faculty Lecture for 1992. Professor Bradshaw writes: “Special thanks to my wife, Karen, for thirty-eight years of love, support, and listening to many of my lectures both here and abroad; to more than one hundred students and research associates for their research efforts through twenty-six years; and to colleagues Reed Izatt, the late James Christensen, Kent Dalley, and John Lamb for years of exciting research.”

In addition, Dr. Bradshaw thanks the following people who have helped make research at BYU enjoyable: a great group of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research associates whose names are given in the relevant figures; outside funding agencies including N.S.F., D.O.E., Naval Research, and the Utah Centers of Excellence Program; the chemistry department chairmen over twenty-five years, most recently J. B. Ott and E. M. Woolley; great support people in the Chemistry Department including Martin Ethington, Gary Reynolds, Kelly Jensen and his staff, Ivan Cook and his staff, Richard Meibos and Guy Curtis and their staff, all department secretaries (past and present), Jerry Mason, Janet Curtis, Bruno Szalkowski, and Que Adams and his staff.