Stanley R. Crouch

Stanley R. Crouch was born in Turlock, California on September 23, 1940. He attended Stanford University from 1958-1963 and was awarded a combination BS/MS degree in 1963, majoring in Chemistry. He attended the University of Illinois from 1963-1967 and received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 1967. He was a visiting faculty member at Illinois from 1967-1968. He became a faculty member at Michigan State University in 1968. He did research and taught in the area of Analytical Chemistry for 32 years. He wrote textbooks in Electronics, and Chemistry while at Michigan State. He retired in 2000 and moved to Prescott, Arizona and then to Minden, Nevada. He now resides in Santa Rosa, California where he continues to write textbooks in Analytical Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis. He received two awards from the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry. In 1996, he was awarded the Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2001 the Award in Chemical Instrumentation. He was named a fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in 2013 and an Emeritus Member in 2014.