title: A promise kept.
abstract: This article is largely biographical and relates to my experiences of the past 67 years in research and teaching, both of equal importance in my life. I was fortunate to start at the beginning of the development of instrumental methods of analysis and have eagerly embraced each new methodology as it became available. This paper is dedicated to all those students and colleagues who taught me much and whose efforts are mainly responsible for what has been accomplished in our work with food science and technology. The research focused primarily on trying to find out the "why" behind the problems that food, and especially the dairy products area, encountered over the past 65 years. The teaching has tried to foster thinking and problem solving.
authors: Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. harper.9@osu.edu
authors: W James
authors: WJ
authors: Harper
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