Pinkerton is ACA vice president for 2006
DOI: 10.1063/1.2195323
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 responsibility of the ACA is to ensure their education and participation in our activities.”
In the past 30 years, Pinkerton has published some 200 papers that apply crystallographic ideas and techniques to many topics. He has acquired research funding for projects involving lanthanide chemistry, charge-density studies of biologically active compounds, energetic materials, and cryogenic cooling of protein crystals. His recent research has focused on developing methods for data quality in small-molecule and protein data, and on applying those methods to charge-density studies.
Pinkerton has served on ACA’s committees for development, apparatus and standards, and nominations, and has chaired the association’s small-molecule special interest group. He also was a member of the American Institute of Physics development committee from 1995 to 1997.
In other ACA elections news, Andrew J. Howard (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago) was elected to a four-year term on the data, computing, and standards committee. William J. Pennington (Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina) won a four-year term on the communications committee and Christopher L. Cahill (George Washington University, Washington, DC) was elected to a four-year term on the continuing education committee.
