Peter W. Carr is a Professor of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry of the University of Minnesota. Professor Carr received his B.S. in Chemistry (1965) from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn where he worked with Professor Louis Meites, and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University (1969) under the guidance of Professor Joseph Jordan. Prior to joining the University of Georgia as an Assistant Professor in 1969, he was a research assistant and associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory during the summers of 1965 and 1966 and a postdoctoral associate at Stanford University Medical School (1968) under David Glick. In 1977, Prof. Carr joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as an Associate Professor and became Pro¬fessor of Chemistry in 1981.
     Professor Carr and his fifty former graduate students and postdoctoral associates have published over 340 papers in a variety of areas of Analytical Chemistry, including electrochemistry, ion selective electrodes, thermochemistry, and chromatography. He holds fourteen U.S. patents in the areas related to chemical analysis and chromatography. He and Professor Larry D. Bowers have jointly authored a monograph entitled “Immobilized Enzymes in Analytical and Clinical Chemistry”. Recently, his research interests have focused on understanding the nature of solute-solvent interactions as they pertain to the prediction of retention, selectivity and optimiza¬tion in chromatography. Additional areas of study include affinity chromatography, the theory of nonlinear chromatography, and the development of zirconia-based chemically stable supports for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) ands most recently ultra-fast and two dimensional HPLC.