Jim Sudmeier attended Shattuck School, a military academy in Minnesota. He received his BA degree cum laude from Carleton College and his doctorate in chemistry from Princeton University. Sudmeier has taught, researched, and studied at UCLA, UC Riverside, Oxford University, and Chalmers Institute in Sweden. In 2013 he retired from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston where he had been a senior lecturer for twenty-eight years. Sudmeier has written more than seventy peer-reviewed papers published in numerous scientific journals. His screenplay, the docudrama Patton's Secret Mission, won the first-place Platinum REMI Award at the Houston Film Festival in 2006. In 2017 he co-wrote an article for After the Battle. Sudmeier is married, with two children and six grandchildren. He enjoys golf, skiing, bicycling, canoeing, and travel. For more information, visit his website at jimsudmeier.com.