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Obituary: James F. Hinton Jr.

by Linda Wang
September 21, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 37

 

Photo of James Hinton.
Credit: Courtesy of the Hinton family
James Hinton

James F. Hinton Jr., 81, died on July 20 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

“Jim Hinton was a pioneer in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to study important chemical and biological systems. Jim was a pioneer in the study of the role of monovalent cations such as Na+ and K+ in biological systems. Jim developed an immersive 3-D virtual reality system that allows immersion of an observer into a protein in order to walk around inside a protein structure to understand how it functions. Jim was an outstanding teacher and mentor to undergraduate honors students and graduate students, and he directed the dissertations of 26 PhD students.”—Frank Millett, friend and colleague

Most recent title: Professor emeritus, University of Arkansas

Education: BS, chemistry, University of Alabama, 1960; PhD, chemistry, University of Georgia, 1964

Survivors: Wife, Barbara; sons, James, Robert, and Thomas; five grandchildren

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