Spencer L. Seager is Professor of Chemistry at

Weber State University Weber State University (pronounced ) is a public university in Ogden, Utah. It was founded in 1889 as Weber Stake Academy. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. History Weber State University was founded ...

History

He received his B.S. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. in

physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistica ...

from the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

under the dean of science at the time, Henry Eyring; his adviser was J. Calvin Giddings. He began teaching at WSU in 1960. He served as chemistry department chairman from 1969 to 1993.

Subjects taught

He teaches introductory, general, and physical chemistry at the university and is also active in projects to help improve chemistry and other science education in local elementary schools.

Books

*''Introductory Chemistry for Today'' *''Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry'' *''Organic and Biochemistry for Today'' *''Safety Scale Laboratory Experiments for Chemistry For Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry'' *''Environmental Chemistry: Air and Water Pollution''

Publications

*"Energy, from Source to Use" *"Rapid Determination of Gaseous Diffusion Coefficients by Means of

Gas Chromatography Gas chromatography (GC) is a common type of chromatography used in analytical chemistry for separating and analyzing compounds that can be vaporized without decomposition. Typical uses of GC include testing the purity of a particular substanc ...

Apparatus" *"Temperature Dependence of Gas and Vapor Diffusion Coefficients" *"Plate height in coiled columns" *"Plate Height in Gas Chromatography" *"Colorimetric Determination of Low Concentrations of Primary and Secondary Alcohols" *"Rapid Diffusional Analysis by Chromatographic Methods" *"Environmental Chemistry: Air and Water Pollution"

References

University of Utah alumni Weber State University faculty Living people American physical chemists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-academic-scientist-stub