About Us - Quantum Northwest

The Company

The headquarters of Quantum Northwest, Inc. is located in Liberty Lake, a growing high tech community near Spokane on the eastern side of Washington State. The Spokane area is a land of ponderosa pine and rock outcroppings sculpted in recent geological times by the great Missoula floods. We have a dry climate with much of the 17 inches of annual precipitation falling in the form of about 5 feet of winter snow. Our region is blessed with hundreds of lakes and other recreational opportunities in all directions. The Spokane area is the main distribution site for the Inland Northwest, a huge region incorporating eastern Washington, Idaho, western Montana and parts of Oregon and southern Canada. The very best of materials and processing facilities are readily available to us. Quantum Northwest remains a small company, working with a close-knit group of local vendors. You can count on the very best quality and immediate personal care for any concerns regarding our products. Dr. Enoch Small incorporated Quantum Northwest, Inc. in May 1993 after 22 years of federally-funded research using spectroscopy. Our products are made by people who know how to use them. If you can dream it, we can make it.

Enoch Small, Ph.D.

Dr. Small received his B.S. degree from Cornell University, followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Oregon. As a faculty member first at Oregon State University and later at Eastern Washington University, he spent 15 years managing a federally-funded research program using time-resolved fluorescence to elucidate the conformational changes of nucleosomes.

As a biophysicist, Dr. Small published 54 scientific articles on pulsed-laser photoacoustics, time-resolved fluorescence, Raman spectroscopy, deconvolution methods and rotational diffusion theory. Dr. Small founded Quantum Northwest in 1993 and enjoyed the challenges of finding unique solutions to instrumental problems.

Dr. Small founded Quantum Northwest in 1993 and enjoyed the challenges of finding unique solutions to instrumental problems until his death in 2021.