Jon Melton's Home Page


Welcome to my home page. I teach chemistry at Messiah College and have listed below some of the courses that I teach:

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • General Chemistry I
  • General Chemistry II
  • Introductory College Chemistry

I received my BA in 1980 from Cornell College, and my PhD in 1986 from Iowa State University. I have taught at Messiah since 1989, and in addition to teaching I have professional interests in the following areas:

  • Kinetics and Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions
  • The Relationship between Science and Christianity
  • Molecular Modeling & Computational Chemistry

I am a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Scientific Affiliation, an organization of Christians in science.

Links

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News

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My personal interests include my family (My wife Donna & son Daniel), reading (science fiction in particular), history, and listening to music.