Norman "Lou" Allinger was an American organic and computational chemist and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens.
14 Facts About Norman Allinger
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Norman Allinger's mother died, aged 75, on 3 January 1982.
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Norman Allinger's father died on 3 July 1983, aged 82.
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Norman Allinger began chemistry as a hobby around 10 or 11 and won a Boy Scout merit badge in the subject at age 13.
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Aged 17, Norman Allinger was experimenting with a highly dangerous mixture of magnesium and red phosphorus with three teenage friends in his bedroom at home.
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Norman Allinger attended Alameda High School and then, aged 18, he enlisted in the US Army, and was stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Norman Allinger then crossed the country to Harvard, where he worked with Paul Bartlett.
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In 1956 Norman Allinger joined the faculty of Wayne State University, becoming a full professor of chemistry in 1960.
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Norman Allinger became the founding editor of the Journal of Computational Chemistry, the first issue of which appeared in 1980.
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Norman Allinger was the senior author of the MM2, MM3, and MM4 molecular mechanics software packages.
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Norman Allinger was a keen philatelist with a very large worldwide collection of used stamps.
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Norman Louis Allinger married Janet Waldron on 14 August 1952 in Los Angeles.
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Janet Waldron Norman Allinger, who was born in Georgia, died in Athens in 1991, aged 62.
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Norman Louis Allinger died in Athens on 8 July 2020.