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Dr. David H. Fine, retired, studied Chemistry at Wits and received his PhD from Leeds University. His post-doctoral work was in the UK and Canada, before joining MIT in 1969. In 1972, he joined Thermo Electron, staying for 28 years. He then founded CyTerra where he developed a handheld detector for buried land mines and Vero-Biotech, a pharmaceutical company, where his nitric oxide delivery technology was approved by the FDA. His other inventions include detection of carcinogenic N-nitrosamines, explosives and narcotics, as well as instruments used in the beverage industry. He has published several hundred scientific papers and is an inventor on121 US Patents.