The BioLogos Team

Lowell Hall

Book Club Director

Lowell H. Hall is Professor of Chemistry at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he has been a faculty member since 1967. He has taught general chemistry, physical chemistry, advanced inorganic chemistry, and instrumental methods of analysis. He has also been a part of the team teaching of Epoch-Making Events in Science, a course on the history and philosophy of science required of all students. Hall has participated in several book clubs dealing with a wide range of topics, especially science-faith literature.

For more than thirty years Hall’s research program has pioneered the development of methods for topological representation of molecular structure which are used in models for properties of biological interest. This work has produced three books, invited chapters in thirteen books, including two chapters in the reference work Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II (Elsevier), and more than 110 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Hall has been an active participant in the Frontiers of Science, Gordon Research Conferences (Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships and also Computer-Aided Drug Design), making sixteen presentations.

Hall earned his doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University. He engaged in postdoctoral work in single crystal x-ray crystallography at The National Bureau of Standards before accepting a teaching position at Florida Atlantic University. While there he continued postdoctoral research at The Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hall is a member of The American Chemical Society, The American Scientific Affiliation, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Hall has served churches as Sunday School teacher for college students, member of the Church Board, choir member, Sunday School Superintendent, and together with his wife Dorla also served as Director of the youth program. Currently he handles the ministry of Passing the Peace at the Wollaston Church of the Nazarene.