Claudia K Leber was born in the American Hospital in the Paris France to US Army soldier and a French nursing assistant. She traveled extensively during her life as her father taught in various universities. She attended high school in Perth Australia, and upon returning to the U.S. started college at the University of California in Irvine where she received a BA in chemistry and worked at the chemistry department nuclear research reactor. Then while attending the University of California at the Riverside she studied geology and met her future husband while receiving a secondary teaching credential. Her studies continued at the dental school of Washington University in ST. Louis where she received her DMD degree. It’s because of her love of chemistry and science that ‘Hydrogen Runner’ materialized . Now retired she fills her life with family and grandchildren.