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We are saddened by the news that Professor Alan Carrington passed away on 31^st August after a long illness.

Alan Carrington served as President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1997-1998 and played a very supportive role in bringing together the Royal Society of Chemistry and other European societies to create the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

He was one of the foremost spectroscopists in the UK, if not the world. Educated at the University of Southampton, B.Sc, 1955, Ph.D under the supervision of Martyn Symons working on esr spectroscopy, 1959. His successes included many prizes of the Royal Society of Chemistry [or its forebears], the Harrison Memorial Prize 1962; the Meldola Medal 1963; the Marlow Medal [of the then Faraday Society] 1966, the Corday Morgan Medal 1967, the Tilden Lectureship and Prize, 1972, The Faraday Medal 1985, and the Longstaff Medal 2005.

You can read an Obituary of Alan Carrington written by David Philips here.

PCCP Associate Editor Katsuhiko Ariga has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor Ariga is a Principal Investigator at MANA and is the Director of Supermolecules Group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. His research covers supermolecular chemistry and surface science, including the boundaries between organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and materials chemistry. He is well-known for his work on supramolecular recognition at interfaces and on biomimetic systems.

Submit your work to Professor Ariga’s Editorial Office.

Check out Ariga’s recent Perspective article in PCCP:

Amphiphile nanoarchitectonics: from basic physical chemistry to advanced applications
Muruganathan Ramanathan, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Taizo Mori, Qingmin Ji, Jonathan P. Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 10580-10611
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50620G, Perspective