

The first edition of Exploring Chemical Analysis came out in 1996. The first edition of Quantitative Chemical Analysis was published in 1982. This volume caught the attention of publishers' representatives wandering through the college bookstore. While teaching analytical chemistry at Davis, he wrote his lectures in bound form for his students.

After teaching at the University of California at Davis from 1975-1980 and at Franklin and Marshall College from 1980-1983, he moved to the Naval Air Systems Command at China Lake, California, where he is now a Senior Scientist and Esteemed Fellow. He earned degrees in Chemistry from MIT in 1968 and Caltech 1973 and was a postdoc at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Dan Harris was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1948.
