Brenda Swann Holmes is an American chemist.
Brenda Swann Holmes | |
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 Brenda Swann Holmes, from a 1980 publication of the Federal Women's Program | |
| Occupation | Chemist |
Early life and education
Holmes graduated from Howard University in 1971, and earned a Ph.D. in chemistry there in 1976, with a dissertation titled "A Study of Spin-Lattice Relaxation Times of 19F, 31p, and 2D in PF6-In Deuterated Dimethyl Sulfoxide".[1]
Career
Holmes won a National Research Council postdoctoral appointment in chemical research at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),[2] studying nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.[3][4] In 1985 she won an EEO Award at the NRL.[5] She was with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in the 1990s.[6]
Holmes served on the editorial review committee of the National Technical Association in 1990,[7] and was keynote speaker at the Howard University Graduate Symposium in 1997.[8]
Publications
In the 1980s, Holmes' research was published in Macromolecules,[9][10] Journal of Magnetic Resonance,[11] and Journal of Applied Polymer Science.[12][13]
- "Application of the J cross-polarization technique to nitrogen-15 of polyamides in solution" (1981, with G. C. Chingas, W. B. Moniz, and Raymond C. Ferguson)[9]
- "NMR study of nylon 66 in solution (proton, carbon-13, and nitrogen-15 NMR using adiabatic J cross polarization)" (1982, with W. B. Moniz and Raymond C. Ferguson)[10]
- "Spin trapping of .NO2 radicals produced by uv photolysis of RDX, HMX, and nitroguanidine" (1983, with M. D. Pace)[11]
- "Cure Monitoring of Polymeric Materials" (1984)[14]
- "Effect of water on the strength of filled polychloroprene vulcanizates" (1986, with Jeffrey A. Hinkley)[12]
- "Cure studies of interpenetrating networks by microdielectrometry" (1988, with Craig A. Trask)[13]