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Citizenship
  
American

Name
  
John Waugh

Nationality
  
USA

Role
  
Chemist

Doctoral advisor
  
Don M. Yost

Fields
  
Chemical physics


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Born
  
April 25, 1929Willimantic, Connecticut (
1929-04-25
)

Alma mater
  
Dartmouth College (A.B.) - 1949California Institute of Technology (PhD) - 1953Dartmouth College (ScD) - 1989

Died
  
August 22, 2014, Concord, Massachusetts, United States

Residence
  
Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, Wolf Prize in Chemistry


Doctoral students
  

2011 welch award dr john s waugh


John Stewart Waugh (April 25, 1929 – August 22, 2014) was an American chemist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for developing average hamiltonian theory and using it to extend NMR spectroscopy, previously limited to liquids, to the solid state. He is the author of ANTIOPE, a freeware general purpose Windows-based simulator of the spectra and dynamics of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). He has also used systems of a few coupled spins to illustrate the general requirements for equilibrium and ergodicity in isolated systems.

In 1974 Waugh was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), in the Chemistry section.

Waugh was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for 1983/84 with Herbert S. Gutowsky and Harden M. McConnell for their independent work on NMR spectroscopy. Waugh was cited for his "fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions to high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in solids." He died on August 22, 2014.

References

John S. Waugh Wikipedia


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