Lorrin Garson was trained as an organic chemist. He holds a
BA from the University of California, Riverside, and MS and PhD
from the University of Maine. In the early 1960s he worked in
the pharmaceutical industry as a medicinal chemist. He was on
the faculty of the University of Tennessee from 1967 to 1974 in
the College of Pharmacy, and joined the staff of the American
Chemical Society in the Publications Division in 1974 as a Senior
Research Associate in the Research & Development Department.
In 1984 he became the Head of the Advanced Technology Department,
in 1995 Chief Technology Officer for the Publications Division,
in 1998 Director, Information Technology/Publications and in 2002
Chief Research Scientist.
During the past 25+ years he has been involved with the development
of methods to acquire and disseminate chemical information electronically
including database development, traditional online systems, CD-ROM,
World Wide Web, etc.
l_garson@acs.org