Early Life and Education
Jim Martin was born in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. He was subsequently raised in South Carolina, and now calls Charlotte home.
He graduated from Davidson College in 1957 with a Bachelors of Science degree. Shortly after graduation, on June 1, he married Dorothy Ann McAulay of Charlotte, North Carolina. An avid tuba player, he was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity and Beta Theta Pi Social Fraternity while an undergraduate at Davidson.
After receiving his doctorate in chemistry from Princeton University in 1960, Martin served as an associate professor of chemistry at his alma mater Davidson College until 1972.
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