Dr. van Swaay was bom in The Hague in 1930, received his undergraduate education at Leyden University in the Netherlands, and earned a Ph.D, degree in physical chemistry at Princeton University in 1956. Upon return to the Netherlands he did postdoctoral work at Leyden, and later joined the staff at the Technical University at Eindhoven.In 1963 Dr. van Swaay joined the Faculty at Kansas State University, where he now holds the rank of Associate Professor of Chemistry. Over the years, his interests have changed from physical to analytical chemistry, then to instrumentation, and from there to laboratory computer operations.Dr. van Swaay has served as an electronic consultant, and has recently been conducting a series of workshops across the country in the use of microprocessors. The present paper is the third article Dr. van Swaay has written for this Series', earlier articles appeared in September 1969 (The Control of Temperature) and in June 1973 (Introduction to Microelectronics).
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