Jean'ne Shreeve

After earning her Ph.D. in 1961, Shreeve took a post as assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Idaho, where she has remained for her entire career, bar short stints as a visiting professor at various institutions, including the University of Cambridge. Her time at Cambridge was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Ramsey Fellowship. She was promoted to full professor at the University of Idaho in 1967, department head of chemistry in 1973, and vice president in 1987.

She attended public schools in Montana for her primary and secondary education, graduating from Thompson Falls High School and earning a full scholarship to what was then Montana State University, now the University of Montana. She worked in the university's library and chemistry department, and participated in intramural sports, band, and a sorority. Shreeve graduated in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, then worked for a year at Missoula County High School as a mathematics teacher. She went on to obtain her master's degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1956 and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Washington in 1961. At the University of Washington, she worked with fluorine chemist George Cady, sparking her interest in the field.

Jean'ne Marie Shreeve (born 1933) is an American chemist known for her studies of fluorine compounds and explosives. She has held her namesake professorship at the University of Idaho since 2004.

Born in Deer Lodge, Montana in 1933, Jean'ne Shreeve was the second of two children to Mary-Frances and Charles W. Shreeve. She was named for the popular 1928 song "Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time". Her father worked for the Northern Pacific Railway and her mother was a teacher, though she spent much of Jean'ne's childhood unemployed, her job a casualty of the Great Depression and the idea that families only needed one adult breadwinner. Mary-Frances later worked as a public school teacher for 40 years. Jean'ne Shreeve had a close bond with her brother William, 22 months older.