Robert P. Lattimer (February 2, 1945 - ) is a retired chemist who worked for

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as an Advanced Materials research and development technical fellow. He is an advocate for including

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in public science curriculum.

Education

Lattimer attended the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

where he earned a B.S. in chemistry. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1971 in physical/analytical chemistry from the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

Career

Lattimer worked for B.F. Goodrich and later Noveon and

as a research chemist. He retired as a Senior Technical Fellow following nearly 40 years of service. His published work on mass spectrometry and polymer characterization and degradation have been widely cited. He is a past Vice-President of the

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. Lattimer was Vice-Chairman of the 1985 Gordon Research Conference on Analytical Pyrolysis. His most cited work treated the subject of

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Political Advocacy

Lattimer is a board member for the Eagle Forum of Ohio. He has advocated for pro-family issues in the state, and he has been the Science Issues Chairman. He advocated for including

Intelligent Design Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins".#Numbers 2006, Numbers 2006, p. 373; " Dcaptured headlines for it ...

in the Ohio Board of Education's state science curriculum. Lattimer was a founder of the advocacy group Science Excellence for All Ohioans (SEAO). He co-authored a book titled The Evolution Controversy. He is a signer of A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism.

Awards and recognition

* 1990 - Sparks–Thomas award * 2008 -

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from the

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* He is a recipient of an Eagle Award from Eagle Forum and a Wedge of Truth Award from IDnet.

References

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