Brenda Swann Holmes

Brenda Swann Holmes is an American chemist.

Early life and education Holmes graduated from Howard University in 1971, and earned a Ph.D. in chemistry there in 1976, with a dissertation titled "A Study of Spin-Lattice Relaxation Times of 19F, 31p, and 2D in PF6-In Deuterated Dimethyl Sulfoxide".

Career Holmes won a National Research Council postdoctoral appointment in chemical research at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), studying nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. In 1985 she won an EEO Award at the NRL. She was with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in the 1990s.

Holmes served on the editorial review committee of the National Technical Association in 1990, and was keynote speaker at the Howard University Graduate Symposium in 1997.

Publications In the 1980s, Holmes' research was published in Macromolecules, and Journal of Applied Polymer Science. "NMR study of nylon 66 in solution (proton, carbon-13, and nitrogen-15 NMR using adiabatic J cross polarization)" (1982, with W. B. Moniz and Raymond C. Ferguson) "Spin trapping of .NO2 radicals produced by uv photolysis of RDX, HMX, and nitroguanidine" (1983, with M. D. Pace) "Effect of water on the strength of filled polychloroprene vulcanizates" (1986, with Jeffrey A. Hinkley) "Cure studies of interpenetrating networks by microdielectrometry" (1988, with Craig A. Trask)