Warren Vidrine's Accomplishments
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
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Over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications
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14 issued patents
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Many articles, applications notes, instructional booklets, and
training
courses
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Invited speaker at 24 international conferences on 4 continents
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Approximately 500 technical presentations given so far
AWARDS
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National Merit Scholar
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SHC Liberal Arts Honors Program Graduate
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ACS Chemistry Program Honors Graduate
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NDEA Title IV Fellow
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Nicolet Corporate Fellow
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"Current Titles": one of 10 most-cited papers in chemistry &
spectroscopy
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Distinguished service citation, ASTM E13 Committee
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"Father of Invention" Award, KVB/Analect
- Williams-Wright Award, Coblentz Society
NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS
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Invented stochastic noise excitation NMR (with P.E. Peterson)
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1st flowcell LC/FTIR accessory; 1st patented SFC/FTIR flowcell
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Developed Nicolet's capillary column GC/IR (with R. Julian)
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1st photoacoustic/FTIR; 1st commercial FTIR/PAS accessory
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Invented double-modulation FTIR (with L. Nafie)
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Invented coaxial quadrature laser for FT-IR (with J. Kisslinger
& al.)
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Invented rigid silicon far-IR beamsplitter
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1st on-line industrial silicon impurity analyzer (with M. Roth)
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1st on-line industrial magnetic disk lubricant analyzer (with F.
Walder)
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Invented direct optical fiber ATR spectroscopy (with M. Roth)
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1st in-situ fiber IR measurement of composite cure (with D.
Compton)
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1st automatic band-selection/nonlinear calibration method for
FTIR
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1st on-line sheet-scanning industrial FTIR analyzer (with D.
Calhoun)
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Project manager for Diamond-20 FTIR spectrometer development
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Invented 3-D structure for refractively-scanned FT-IR (with
Ponce)
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Invented gettering system for removing organic vapors from
hermetic enclosure
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1st on-line sparging FTIR analyzer (with B. McIntosh & M.
Doyle)
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Lab automation system for calibrating oxygenates in gasoline
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1st installed power plant FTIR-CEMS (with B. McIntosh & M.
Marano)
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Thermal-regenerative design for alum sludge dewatering (with S.
Bishop)
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Noninvasive heart rate monitor for exercise machine (with J.
Kisslinger)
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Submicron epi silicon analyzer (with D. Northey)
- Monolithic-interferometer industrial FTIR spectrometer (with
Bleier, Jacobson, &Kisslinger)
The Chinese name 
was given to me by members of the Academia Sinica (Chinese Academy
of Sciences).
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