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Dr Alexander Scheeline is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is an elected Fellow and Honorary Member of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, as well as Founder and President of SpectroClick Inc., a firm developing hand-held spectrometers, and Founder and Vice-President of Anchor Science LLC, a materials development partnership. He has published over 130 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, and is known for his work in optical spectrometry, instrument design, sensors, ultrasonically levitated drops, oxidative stress, chemical kinetics, oscillatory chemical reactions, and the dynamics of nonlinear systems. His numerous awards include the Distinguished Service Award, Special Publications Award and (twice) W F Meggers Award (Society for Applied Spectroscopy), Distinguished Service Award and Innovation Award (Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies), AE50 Award (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers), and the ACS Newsmaker Award (American Chemical Society). He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Measurement; Correlation vs. Causation; Noise; Signal; Uncertainty, Quantum and Classical; Sampling; Bandwidth; Detection Limit; Dynamic Range; Potential Wells; Nonlinearity, Complexity, and Chaos; Markov Processes; Neural Networks; Qualitative, Quantitative, Triage; Doug Hofstadter Got It Right: the Gödel Theorem; Mental Zoom Lens; Theology; Politics, Business, and Law in Light of Mathematical Concepts; Research and Freedom in Light of Mathematical Concepts;