John S. Waugh

John Stewart Waugh ( born April 25, 1929 in Willimantic (Connecticut) ) is an American chemist. He is a pioneer in magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( NMR) and enabled with others whose expansion of liquids on solids. He has worked both theoretically and experimentally.

Waugh was educated at Dartmouth College ( Bachelor 1943) and at Caltech, where he received his doctorate in 1953 at Don M. Yost. He is now Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he rose to 1953-1973 from Instructor to Professor (AA Noyes Professor ).

1983/84 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. In 1976 he was awarded the Langmuir Award, 1984, the Pauling Medal, and the 2011 Welch Award in Chemistry. He became an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College in 1989. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1989 he received a Sc. D. from Dartmouth College. He is the author of the freely available software for the simulation of NMR spectra ANTIOPE and dynamics.

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In 1972 he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and 1953/64 as a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Berkeley. 1962 and 1975 he was a visiting scientist at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1989, he worked as a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech

He has been married since 1983 and has two children.