James E House Author & Editor

James E. House is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Illinois State University, and an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Illinois Wesleyan University. He received BS and MA degrees from Southern Illinois University and a PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana. In his 32 years at Illinois State University, he taught a variety of courses in inorganic and physical chemistry. He has authored almost 150 publications in chemistry journals, many dealing with reactions in solid materials, as well as books on chemical kinetics, quantum mechanics, and inorganic chemistry. He was elected Professor of the Year in 2011 by the student body at Illinois Wesleyan University and in 2018 he was inducted into the Southern Illinois University Chemistry Alumni Hall of Fame. He has authored and edited several books for Elsevier, including most recently Inorganic Chemistry, 3e (2019), Mathematical Physics in Theoretical Chemistry (2018, with S.M. Blinder) and Physical Chemistry of Gas-Liquid Interfaces (2017, with Jennifer Faust).