Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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To say that Professor Jim Pincock had a tremendous impact on our lives would be an understatement. I started graduate school at Dalhousie University the fall of 1985 with Jim as my PhD supervisor. Jim was a calm, brilliant, energetic professor and I very quickly learned how impressive he was as a teacher and mentor. We had numerous discussions around the photochemical research program we embarked on. Jim was very insightful throughout the research program and his lab was an absolute joy to work in. He brought in a number of graduate students, summer students and post-doctoral fellows from around the world and Jim ensured that the lab was a very collegial place to work.
I met my wife, Kim McManus, there when she worked as a summer student. Later Jim was a member of her PhD committee and a great mentor to her as well. The picture is of Kim and Jim after she received her PhD degree. Both of us maintained a friendship with Jim, Alex, Kathy and Christine over the years. In fact, Kathy and Christine were flower girls at our wedding.
Jim was a kind, humble, very easy going and engaging person that you wanted to talk to and be around. Kim's and my lives have been so enriched with him being such a big part of it.
To the best chemistry professor ever...
Our deepest condolence to Alex, Kathy, Christine and family.
