Entreating the American Crystallographic Association to support the newest generation of crystallographers, A. Alan Pinkerton took office 1 January as the society’s vice president for 2006.
Chair of the chemistry department at the University of Toledo and a 1966 graduate of the Royal Institute of Chemistry in the UK, Pinkerton earned his PhD from the University of Alberta in 1971 and did postdoctoral work in crystallography during the next five years at prominent universities in the UK, Switzerland, and France.
Pinkerton, who also has joint appointments in Toledo’s medicinal and biological chemistry department and physics and astronomy department, joined the university in 1984. He also has an adjunct faculty position at Bowling Green State University.
In a prepared statement, Pinkerton said ACA must provide aid and support to young scientists.
“The next generation of crystallographers … is our future,” Pinkerton said in the society’s summer 2005 newsletter. “Perhaps the heaviest...
