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Brooks H. Pate is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. [1] [2]

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He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1987, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1992. He was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) from 1992 to 1993. He heads the Pate Research Group. [3]

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