Alan Carrington
Alan Carrington ( born January 6, 1934 in London, † August 31, 2013 ) was a British chemist.
Life
Carrington attended the Colfe 's Grammar School in the London borough of Royal Borough of Greenwich. At the University of Southampton in 1955, he earned a degree in chemistry. In Martyn Symons, he earned a Ph.D. in 1959, also in Southampton. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Christopher Longuet- Higgins at the University of Cambridge, Downing College at which he worked as a research assistant and later as a lecturer ( Fellow ). He also organized a lecture by Charles Percy Snow in the two cultures debate with FR Leavis.
1967 Carington was appointed professor of chemistry at the University of Southampton, where he was largely removed by a research contract of the Science and Engineering Research Council (1976) and by a Research Professorship of the Royal Society (1979 ) of administrative duties and teaching responsibilities. In 1984 Carrington was a professor at the University of Oxford, but moved in 1987 back to the University of Southampton. He was one of more than thirty years to the editors of the scientific journal Molecular Physics, which honored him on his 65th birthday in 1999 a special issue.
Since 1959, Alan Carrington was married to his wife Hilary, with whom he had three children together.
Work
Carrington has rendered outstanding services in particular through the development of new methods. By combining different spectroscopic techniques such as mass spectrometry, microwave spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy, he contributed significantly to the identification and characterization of molecular spectra ( see molecular spectroscopy) of short-lived chemical species, in particular gaseous free radicals and molecular ions at.
Awards (selection)
Writings (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