Ronald Friedman is Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). He received a B.S in Chemistry from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Minnesota. He teaches general chemistry and physical chemistry at IPFW and has also taught at the University of Michigan and at the Technion (Israel). His research interests are theories of reaction dynamics. He is a co-author of Molecular Quantum Mechanics with Peter Atkins and of Quanta, Matter, and Change: A molecular approach to physical chemistry with Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula.