Alan Carrington

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Alan Carrington (born January 6, 1934 in Greenwich , London , † August 31, 2013 ) was a British chemist .

Life

Carrington attended Colfe's Grammar School in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London . He graduated from the University of Southampton with a degree in chemistry in 1955 . He earned a Ph.D. from Martyn Symons in 1959 with his thesis The Electronic Structure, Spectra, And Properties Of Transition Metal Oxyanions. , also in Southampton. As a postdoctoral fellow , he worked with Christopher Longuet-Higgins at the University of Cambridge , where he initially worked as a research assistant and later as a lecturer (Fellow) at Downing College . Here he also organized a lecture by Charles Percy Snow as part of the two-culture debate with FR Leavis .

In 1967 Carington received a professorship in chemistry at the University of Southampton , where he was largely relieved of administrative tasks and teaching duties by a research assignment from the Science and Engineering Research Council (1976) and a research professorship from the Royal Society (1979). From 1984 Carrington held a professorship at the University of Oxford , but moved back to the University of Southampton in 1987 . For more than thirty years he was one of the editors of the scientific journal Molecular Physics , which dedicated a special issue to him in 1999 for his 65th birthday.

Since 1959 Alan Carrington was married to his wife Hilary (nee Taylor), with whom he had three children.

Act

Carrington has made a particular contribution to the development of new methods. By combining various spectroscopy techniques, such as mass spectrometry , microwave spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy , he made a significant contribution to the determination and characterization of the molecular spectra (see molecular spectroscopy ) of short-lived chemical species , in particular gaseous free radicals and molecular ions .

Awards (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to Magnetic Resonance. (1967) With Andrew D. McLachlan
  • Microwave Spectroscopy of Free Radicals. (1974)
  • Rotational Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules. (2003) With John M. Brown

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Alan Carrington. Obituary in The Daily Telegraph , Sept. 30, 2013; accessed October 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Alan Carrington at academictree.org, accessed on 23 January 2018th
  3. ^ Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize Winners at the Royal Society of Chemistry (rsc.org); Retrieved May 9, 2013
  4. ^ RSC Structural Chemistry Award. In: rsc.org. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  5. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved May 9, 2013
  6. ^ Faraday Lectureship Winners at the Royal Society of Chemistry (rsc.org); Retrieved May 9, 2013
  7. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 730 kB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved May 9, 2013
  8. ^ Davy Medal at the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved May 9, 2013
  9. ^ Alan Carrington at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org); Retrieved February 20, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Carrington, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerrington, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich (London)
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2013