Clyde Allen Hutchison (chemist)

Clyde Allen Hutchison Jr. (born May 5, 1913 in Alliance , Ohio - † August 29, 2005 in Chicago ) was an American physical chemist.

biography

Hutchison studied at Cedarville College with a bachelor's degree in 1933 and received his doctorate in 1937 from Ohio State University under Herrick L. Johnston with the thesis The electrolytic separation of the isotopes of lithium . As a post-doctoral student he was a Fellow of the National Research Council with Harold Urey at Columbia University, became Assistant Professor at the University of Buffalo in 1939 and was involved in the Manhattan Project from 1940 to 1945 (Columbia University, University of Virginia). From 1945 he was assistant professor and later professor at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago . 1959 to 1963 was Hutchison the chemistry faculty. In 1963 he became Carl William Eisendraht Professor. In 1983 he retired.

He dealt with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), separation of isotopes and their use as tracers, magnetic susceptibility of heavy elements, electron spin resonance and its application to the structure determination of proteins, paramagnetism in the triplet state of organic molecules, organic crystals.

In 1972 he received the Peter Debye Award . He was a Guggenheim Fellow at Oxford University in 1955/56 and George Eastman Professor at Oxford in 1981/82. Hutchison was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1963), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1968), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an advisor to the Argonne National Laboratory .

His son Clyde Allen Hutchison III is a molecular biologist.

Web links

• Obituary at the University of Chicago

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Clyde Allen Hutchison at academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th