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John S. Waugh

John S. Waugh
Born	1929
Citizenship	American
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Dartmouth College (A.B.) - 1949 California Institute of Technology (PhD) - 1953 Dartmouth College (ScD) - 1989
Known for	Computational studies of spin systems, NMR spectroscopy in solids
Notable prizes	Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1983)

John S. Waugh (born 1929) is an American chemist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.

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In 1974 Waugh was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), in the Chemistry section.^[1]

Waugh was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for 1983/84, a prestigious international prize bestowed by the Wolf Foundation. He shared in the prize with two other US-based researchers working (independently) in the field of NMR spectroscopy, Herbert S. Gutowsky and Harden M. McConnell.^[2]

According to the citation accompanying the prize, the committee selected Waugh "for his fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions to high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in solids."^[2]

Notes

^ NAS (2007)
^ ^a ^b Wolf Foundation Prize Committee for Chemistry (n.d.)

References

National Academy of Sciences (2007). Waugh, John S.. Membership Directory. NAS online. Retrieved on 2007-08-31.
Wolf Foundation Prize Committee for Chemistry (n.d.). The 1983/4 Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry. The Wolf Prizes. Wolf Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-08-31.

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Wolf Prize in Chemistry Laureates

Carl Djerassi (1978) • Herman Mark (1979) • Henry Eyring (1980) • Joseph Chatt (1981) • John Charles Polanyi / George C. Pimentel (1982) • Herbert S. Gutowsky / Harden M. McConnell / John S. Waugh (1983) • Rudolph A. Marcus (1984) • Elias James Corey / Albert Eschenmoser (1986) • David C. Phillips / David Blow (1987) • Joshua Jortner / Raphael David Levine (1988) • Duilio Arigoni / Alan R. Battersby (1989) • Richard R. Ernst / Alexander Pines (1991) • John Pople (1992) • Ahmed Zewail (1993) • Richard Lerner / Peter Schultz (1994) • Gilbert Stork / Samuel J. Danishefsky (1995) • Gerhard Ertl / Gabor A. Somorjai (1998) • Raymond Lemieux (1999) • F. Albert Cotton (2000) • Henri B. Kagan / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless (2001) • Harry B. Gray (2004) • Richard Zare (2005) • Ada Yonath / George Feher (2006)

Category: American chemists

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