1944
Born to Peter F. and Kathleen (Higgins) Carr in Brooklyn, NY.
1965
Earns a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from The Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute.
1965
Is a research assistant and associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory through 1966.
1968
Earns a Doctor of Philosophy in analytical chemistry from Pennsylvania State University.
1968
Is a postdoctoral associate at Stanford University Medical School.
1969
Serves as a faculty member at the University of Georgia through 1977.
1976
Is a consultant to Leeds and Northrup, Hewlett Packard, 3M Co., Cabot Inc., Agilent Techs., President Symposium Analytical Chemistry in Environment.
1977
Teaches as a professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota and continues in this role.
1978
Co-authors with L. D. Bowers “Immobilized Enzymes in Analytical and Clinical Chemistry,” published by John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY.
1984
Receives the L.S. Palmer Award from the Minnesota Chromatography Forum.
1990
Receives the Benedetti-Pichler Award from the American Microchemistry Society.
1993
Receives the Fields Analytical Chemistry Award from the Eastern Analytical Symposium.
1995
Is the founder and first president of both the Minnesota Chromatography Forum and ZirChrom Separations Inc. through 2002.
1996
Receives the S. Dal Nogare Award from the Delaware Valley Chromatography Forum.
2000
Receives an award in separation science from the Eastern Analytical Symposium.
2004
Receives the Pittsburgh Conference Award in Analytical Chemistry.
2009
Receives The Analytical Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society.
2010
Receives the AJP Martin Medal from the Chromatographic Society of Great Britain.
2013
Receives the J.C. Giddings Teaching Award in Analytical Chemistry.
2017
Serves as a co-editor of “Advances in Chromatograph” and continues in this role.