Tom Strom

Adjunct Professor

Office: 356 Chemistry and Physics Building (CPB)
Email: tomstrom@juno.com
Phone: 817-272-5441
Education:
B.S. Chem., University of Iowa (1958)
M.S. Chem., (Nuclear Chemistry), University of California, Berkeley (1961)
Ph.D. (Physical Organic Chemistry),
Iowa State University (1964)B.Sc.

Dr. Strom served two years in the U.S. Army at the Pioneering Research Laboratory of Natick Laboratories and worked 32 years for Mobil Research and Development Corp. in Dallas. He has nearly 50 scientific publications, 25 U.S. patents, and a number of foreign patents. While working for Mobil, he taught chemistry courses in night school at UT-Arlington, UT-Dallas, Dallas Baptist University, and El Centro Community College. After he retired from Mobil, he began teaching again at UT-Arlington. His research interests are in the study of organic free radicals by electron spin resonance spectroscopy, the use of polymers in oil production, and the history of chemistry.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award; Strom, E. Thomas, Mainz, Vera V., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 1209; American Chemical Society, 2015

Trahanovsky, Kathleen M., Strom, E. Thomas; Exploring Free Radicals: The Life and Chemistry of Glen A. Russell, in The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award; Strom, E. Thomas, Mainz, Vera V., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 1209; American Chemical Society, 2015 93-138

Schleyer, Paul von R., Mainz, Vera V., Strom, E. Thomas, Norbonyl Cation Isomers Still Fascinate, in: The Life and Chemistry of Glen A. Russell, in The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award; Strom, E. Thomas, Mainz, Vera V., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 1209; American Chemical Society, 2015139-168

Pioneers of Quantum Chemistry; Strom, E. Thomas, Wilson, Angela K., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 1122; American Chemical Society; 2013

Strom, E. Thomas; George W. Wheland: Forgotten Pioneer of Resonance Theory. in Pioneers of Quantum Chemistry; Strom, E. Thomas, Wilson, Angela K., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 1122; American Chemical Society; 2013, 75-115

100+ Years of Plastics. Leo Baekeland and Beyond; Strom, E. Thomas, Rasmussen, Seth C, Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 1080; American Chemical Society; 2011

E. Thomas Strom, D. S. Marynick and B. S. Snowden, Jr, "Electron Spin Resonance Studies of Substituent Effects. 6. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Ortho Substituent-Induced Cis-Trans Isomerization in 1-Phenyl-1,2-Propanesemidiones," ARKIVOC 2003, xii, 178-185.

Inaugural Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Chair-Elect of the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry

ACS Councilor

1989 Wilfred T. Doherty Award of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Section of the American Chemical Society