About Me
As way of background, I have a Ph.D. in Chemistry in ’71. An era where the entire University’s computing power was less than a single cell phone.
After retirement in 2017, I became an “Itinerant Chemist” working in museum research labs studying colors and pigments in past centuries art. Currently I am a volunteer at The Met Scientific Research Laboratory working under Dr. Marco Leona, a wonderful mentor, and his fantastic team of scientists.
I have also worked in the curatorial department of other museums, MFA Boston and British Museum, documenting, measuring , creating catalog entries.
In 2018 I taught tour guides at Mogao Caves, in Dunhuang China for over one month. Quite a fascinating experience, spending afternoons in many of the over 400 decorated caves, learning about the art and practicing presentations.
I must give thanks to some people who have helped me maintain my health to be able to attempt this adventure. My trainer, Mike Gilmore at his studio Fit4 in Newton, my PCP Dr. Steven Atlas at MGH, Internal Medicine and my oncologist, Dr. Rick Lee, also at MGH.
Training, mostly in my later years has helped fight the losses of aging and cancer treatments. Drs. Atlas and Lee watch over me quite carefully in exchange for my adventure stories.
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Richard. A. Pinkowitz , Ph.D
11 Church Street
Newton, MA 02458
email: richpink@comcast.net
Statement of Experience:
Ph.D. Dissertation title, “Solvated Electron in Liquid Ammonia”, a model for the solution chemistry of a lone electron in solution. Studies using Magnetic Resonance and then analysis using modifications of least squares analysis of the spectra to determine the solvation number of the electron.
Follow on work in various analytical techniques applied to problems in art detection, of pigments and colorants using Ramen and Reflectance spectroscopy and then statistical analysis of data.
Involved with the Coast Guard Auxiliary programs teaching public courses coastal and advanced navigation and piloting and Specialist Qualification courses for the Auxiliary.
Ex scientific work included business and marketing models for national and international product launches for Medical Products, diagnostics and blood products. Models assisted in definition of pricing distribution and defining business opportunities.
Education:
1971-1973 Post Doctoral Fellow, Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1965-1971 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
1961 -1965 B.S., Chemistry with Honors, City College of New York
Publications (Technical):
1 R. Pinkowitz, Testing for bacterial contamination in platelets, MLO, 24-25, Oct. 2014.
2 P. Aisen, A. Lieberman, R. Pinkowitz, S. Pollack, Exchangeability of bicarbonate specifically bound to Transferrin, Biochem, 12(19) 1973 3679 – 3684.
3 P. Aisen, R. Pinkowitz, A. Liebman, EPR and other Studies of the Anion Binding Sites of Transferrin, Annals, NY Acad Sci., 222(1), 337-346(1973)
4 R. Pinkowitz, P. Aisen, Zero Field Splitting of Iron Complexes of Transferrin, J. Biol. 247(23) Dec 10, 7830-34(1972).
5 Solvation Number of the Electron in Liquid Ammonia, J. Chem. Phys., 54, 2858 (1971)
6 17. J. I. Morrow, R. Pinkowitz, J. Laufer, A study of the decomposition of Peroxochromic Acid, Inorg. Chem., 1966,5(5), 934-936
