The Eye At The Center

About the Book

About the Author

Alec E. Kelley grew up in south Texas on the Mexican border. He finished two years at Edinburg Junior College (now University of Texas?Pan American) and graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas (Austin). After working 1944-46 on plutonium separation and isolation in the Glen Seaborg group of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago (the last two-thirds while in the U. S. Army), he obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in organic chemistry from Purdue University. He taught at the University of Arizona from 1952, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1986. In 1992 he moved to Pennsylvania with his wife Alita, who had begun teaching in the Pennsylvania State University system. Most of his writing has been after his retirement.