Prof Alan Carrington, CBE, FRS

Career: res fell Univ of Minnesota 1957-58, asst dir res and official fell Downing Coll Cambridge 1963-67 (GEC res fell 1959-60, asst res and res fell Downing Coll 1960-63), Royal Soc res prof Univ of Southampton 1979-84 and 1987-99 (prof of chemistry 1967-76, SERC sr res fell 1976-79), Royal Soc res prof and professorial fell Jesus Coll Oxford 1984-87, Leverhulme emeritus fell 1999; pres Faraday Div Royal Soc of Chemistry 1997-98; Harrison Meml Medal and Prize Chem Soc 1962, Meldola Medal Royal Inst of Chemistry 1963, Marlow Medal Faraday Soc 1966, Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize Chem Soc 1967, Award and Medal for Structural Chemistry Chem Soc 1970, Tilden Medal and lectureship Chem Soc 1972, Faraday Medal Royal Soc of Chemistry 1985, Davy Medal Royal Soc 1992, Longstaffe Medal Royal Soc of Chemistry 2005; hon fell Downing Coll Cambridge 1999, Hon DSc Univ of Southampton 1985; foreign hon memb American Acad of Arts and Scis 1987, foreign assoc US Nat Acad of Scis 1994; FRS 1971, FRSC 1989, CChem 1989, FInstP, CPhys 1993

Books and Publications: Introduction to Magnetic Resonance (with A D McLachlan, 1967), Microwave Spectroscopy of Free Radicals (1974), Rotational Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules (with J M Brown, 2003)