The first thing people usually ask me, having only seen my name in print, is “How do you pronounce that thing?”
Like this: Lee Creech Burner*.
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, German chemist and inventor of the Bunsen burner, is my doctoral great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
I hold a PhD in chemistry from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. My thesis work involved the design and synthesis of light-activated anti-cancer drugs.
I currently work as freelance science writer. For examples of my writing, please see the ‘Clips‘ page.
I can be reached at ljkboerner AT gmail DOT com.
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*Technically, it can pronounced either “Burn-er” or “Born-er.” My husband and actual German father-in-law say it the first way, so that’s what I say too. The correct pronunciation sounds something like a sousaphone being played in a bathtub, but shorter. I don’t have those muscles, so “Burner” is good enough for me.
