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Charles Henrickson received the PhD in chemistry from the University of Iowa with additional work at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Chemistry at Western Kentucky University. During his career he has coauthored chemistry textbooks and several widely adopted laboratory manuals.