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Ulrich, E. AND S. Glassmeyer. In Memoriam: Ronald Hites. IN: SETAC Globe, SETAC Press, Pensacola, FL, N/A, (2024).

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On 5 January, the environmental science world lost a giant as Ronald Atlee Hites passed away at his home in Bloomington, Indiana. Ron was born in 1942 in Michigan. He received his Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Oakland University in 1964 and his PhD in analytical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968 with mass spectrometry pioneer Klaus Biemann. He completed a National Academy of Sciences postdoc with the Deptartment of Agriculture in Peoria, Illinois, and then returned to MIT, until accepting a position in 1979 at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he held dual appointments in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Chemistry.

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