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Max S. Strozier (born June 7, 1958) is an American industrial chemist, genealogist, and webmaster. He is the son of Dr. William Enloe Strozier, M.D. and Hilda Maxine Starcke. His father practiced as a physician specializing in OB-GYN and his mother was a housewife and stay-at-home mother. He is the grandson of Max Starcke and a grand nephew of Hilmar Herman Weinert, both past Mayors of Seguin, Texas. Strozier, who holds an M.Sc. in Chemistry from The University of Texas at San Antonio, is a member of a number of professional organizations including The American Chemical Society (ACS) and The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). He is noted as a San Antonio Company Governor in the Jamestowne Society and as a Deputy Governor General in the Order of the First Families of Maryland heritage societies where he has served as an officer of the two societies. He has also served as President in the Boerne Chapter Sons of the American Revolution (SAR).

Early life and education
Strozier grew up in Alamo Heights, Texas which is an incorporated city inside of the city limits of San Antonio, Texas. He was baptized at, and attends, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. He attended public schools in the Alamo Heights Independent School District, Cambridge Elementary School, Alamo Heights Junior High School, and Alamo Heights High School. During high school, he spent time working in various chemistry laboratories on independent study chemistry problems related to precious metal inorganic chemistry at various metal refiners. In his senior year of high school, Strozier was asked to complete a second year of chemistry in an honors class on the subject. Strozier graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1976. He attended San Antonio College as a declared chemistry major while working at various jobs. In 1980, he transferred to the University of Texas at San Antonio and completed a Bachelor of Science Degree. After 2 years of being employed working at Merck & Co., he returned to the University of Texas at San Antonio as a graduate student in chemistry declaring concentrations in 4 chemistry related topics: inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, thermodynamics, and biochemistry. While completing his graduate work, he was on the faculty of 2 different Universities, The University of Texas at San Antonio and San Jose State University. He co-authored 2 journal articles on Lanthanide chemistry (see Publications section below). Strozier graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with his Master of Science Degree in May 1987.

Career
In January 1988, Strozier became an employee of Texaco Chemical Company and and was a Senior Chemist at their Port Neches West Chemical Plant. He supervised preparations of methods of analysis for the primary chemicals manufactured at that location, butadiene and organic ethers. He was also involved in catalyst research involving the alpha-acetylene selective hydrogenation of acetylene based compounds that were present as a contaminant in butadiene, and in the research of ion-exchange resin catalysts used for the production of organic ethers. In 1994 Texaco sold the Texaco Chemical Company to the Huntsman Corporation for $850 million.

In October 1991, Strozier became an employee of Alcor, Inc. in San Antonio as a Customer Technical Services Manager. There, he was involved in the development and support of petrochemical instruments, the Jet Fuel Thermal Oxidation Tester (ASTM D3241) and the Micro Carbon Residue Tester (ASTM D4530) for the chemical and petroleum industries. These instruments were used to support selected analytical methods cited in the ASTM standards. It was during this time that Strozier joined the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). In 1994, the owner of Alcor, Inc., Alf Hundere, sold the Petrochemical Instruments Division of Alcor, Inc. to Varlen Instruments, a subsidiary of the Varlen Corporation. Varlen Corporation renamed the old Petrochemical Instruments Division of Alcor, Inc to Alcor Petroleum Instruments, Inc. These same instruments are presently sold and used by the industry to this day.

In July 1999, Strozier became an employee of StandardAero San Antonio, a military defense contractor, and was assigned to lead various trade secret chemical process projects that are used by the chemical and related industries. Presently, he is still an employee at StandardAero San Antonio, Inc.

In 2015, Max Strozier became a member of the McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors, a supporter group for McDonald Observatory research projects in the Texas Davis Mountains near Ft Davis, Texas. He presently supports astronomical research as well as being strongly interested in the astronomical subject matter.

Family genealogy and heritage
Max Strozier is an avid family genealogist and belongs to, and has served in, numerous heritage societies.

Publications
"Complexation differences between lanthanide nitrates from spectroscopic measurements in water"

Journal of the Less Common Metals, Volume 126, December 1986, Pages 315–321

Abstract

Spectroscopic measurements on 0.2001 M europium(III) solutions deviate from Beer's Law as nitrate is added. Both EuNO32+ and Eu(NO3)2+ form between 15 and 37 °C, with the respective formation constants of 5.72 and 1.78 at I = 3.0 (NaClO4) and 25 °C. These results differ from the Er3+-NO3-system, where only the monocomplex is stable. 4 authors

"Europium nitrate complexation in aqueous methanol"

Inorganica Chimica Acta, Volume 128(2), April 1987, Pages 267–271

Abstract

In aqueous methanol in the presence of nitrate, Eu(III) forms Eu(NO3)2+, Eu(NO3)2+ and Eu(NO3)3+ complexes. At 25 °C and a water mole fraction of 0.01, K1 = 168.4 ± 14.8, K2 = 114.6 ± 5.2 and K3 = 41.1 ± 3.6. As the water mole fraction increases, the magnitude of each of the equilibrium constants decreases. In water, the tris complex is not present. No complexes are detected between Eu(III) and ClO4- between water mole fractions of 0.01 to 1.00. The behavior of Eu(III) in aqueous methanol appears to be somewhat different than that for Er(III) in aqueous methanol under similar conditions. 2 authors

Affiliations
Mu Alpha Theta (1975, 1976) American Chemical Society (1982 - Present) American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) (1991 - Present) Marquis Who's Who in the World (1997, 2000) Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering (1997) Marquis Who's Who in America (2019)