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Alan Carrington was one of the leading spectroscopists in Britain in the late twentieth century. After spending a year as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota, Carrington was a Fellow of Downing College Cambridge between 1959 and 1967, where he worked closely with Christopher Longuet-Higgins, and became assistant director of research in 1963.

In 1967 Carrington returned to the University of Southampton as one of the youngest professors of chemistry in Britain at the time. He was Royal Society Research Professor in Southampton from 1979 to 1984, and after spending three years at the University of Oxford, resumed his research professorship until his retirement from the University of Southampton in 1999.

Carrington's contributions to chemical physics were in the fields of electron spin resonance (esr) spectroscopy, and magnetic resonance in general. He produced the classic monograph on this important topic 'Introduction to Magnetic Resonance with Applications to Chemistry and Chemical Physics', and many others. His important work on the vibrational spectroscopy of the simplest possible triatomic species, H3+, simplified the theoretical calculation of the structures which give rise to the rich spectra observed experimentally.

Carrington was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971, and was awarded the Royal Society's Davy Medal in 1992. He also became a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1994. Alan Carrington served as President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1997-1998.