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John T. Moore
Richard H. Langley

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JOHN MOORE grew up in the foothills of western North Carolina. He attended the University of North CarolinaAsheville, where he received his bachelors degree in chemistry. He earned his masters degree in chemistry from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After a stint in the United States Army he decided to try his hand at teaching. In 1971 he joined the faculty of Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he still teaches chemistry. In 1985 he started back to school part-time, and in 1991 received his doctorate in education from Texas A&M University. In 2003 his first book, Chemistry for Dummies, was published.

RICHARD LANGLEY grew up in southwestern Ohio. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he earned bachelors degrees in chemistry and mineralogy and a masters degree in chemistry. He next went to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where he received his doctorate in chemistry. He took a postdoctoral position at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, then became a visiting assistant professor at the University of WisconsinRiver Falls. He has taught at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, since 1982.

The authors are coauthors of Chemistry for the Utterly Confused, Biochemistry for Dummies, and Organic Chemistry II for Dummies