Editing Robert Parr (section)

==Career==
Parr received an A. B. [[academic degree|degree]] ''magna cum laude'' from [[Brown University]] in 1942, and then entered the [[University of Minnesota]], receiving a Ph.D. in [[physical chemistry]] in 1947. He joined the faculty at Minnesota upon receiving his Ph.D. and remained there one year. In 1948 he moved to the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] (now [[Carnegie Mellon University]]) in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], becoming a full professor in 1957. In 1962 he moved to [[Johns Hopkins University]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], and in 1974 to the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], where he received appointment to an endowed professorship in 1990 and where he last taught.