Herbert S. Gutowsky

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Herbert Sander Gutowsky (born November 8, 1919 in Bridgman , Michigan , † January 13, 2000 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American chemist. He is a pioneer in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), which he was one of the first to apply to chemistry ( chemical shift ).

Gutowsky grew up on a farm and studied at Indiana University (Bachelor 1940), at the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his master’s degree in 1946, and at Harvard University , where he worked with George Kistiakowsky with the work Problems in molecular structure and the solid state: Part I. The infrared and raman spectra of dimethyl mercury and dimethyl zinc. Part II. Nuclear magnetic resonance absorption, molecular structure and the nature of the solid state doctorate was. From 1948 he was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , from 1955 with a full professorship. In 1967 he became head of the chemistry faculty there. In 1970 he founded the School of Chemical Sciences at the university, which he headed as director until 1983.

In addition to NMR, he also dealt with EPR ( Electron Paramagnetic Resonance ). In the 1970s and 1980s, he studied photosynthesis .

In 1983/84 he received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and also the Langmuir Award , the Kistiakowsky Prize and the Peter Debye Prize . In 1962 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He had been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1960 , and in 1969 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1982 he became an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts

  • The coupling of chemical and nuclear magnetic phenomena, in DM Grant, RK Harris (Ed.) Encyclopedia of NMR, Wiley 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Herbert S. Gutowsky at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
  2. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 18, 2016
  3. ^ Member History: HS Gutowsky. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gutowsky, Herbert S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutowsky, Herbert Sander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgman (Michigan)
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2000
Place of death Urbana , Illinois