Lyndon Emsley
Lyndon Emsley (born November 29, 1964 in Durham ) is a British chemist.
His father James Emsley was a professor at the University of Southampton . Emsley studied chemistry at Imperial College London with a master's degree in 1986 and received his doctorate in 1991 under Geoffrey Bodenhausen at the University of Lausanne . He was a post-doctoral student at the Miller Institute at the University of California, Berkeley , with Alexander Pines . There he began to work with NMR in solids. In 1993 he went to Grenoble. In 1994 he became professor at the École normal supérieure de Lyon with full professorship in 1995. From 2006 to 2014 he was head of the chemistry department and from 1999 to 2002 head of the laboratory for experimental chemistry. He was the project manager for the establishment of the European laboratory for NMR at very high fields (Center Européen de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs, CRMN) in Villeurbanne , which opened in 2008 and has the NMR spectrometer with the highest magnetic field (operating at 1 GHz Area). In 2014 he became Professor of Physical Chemistry at EPFL in Lausanne, where he is Director of the NMR Laboratory.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2002, Senior Member from 2012), received the Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015 and the Charles-Leopold Mayer Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences in 2012 and the Ampere price. In 2009 he received the EAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Magnetic Resonance and in 2010 the Luigi Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society. In 2005 he received the CNRS silver medal in chemistry. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance. In 2011 he became Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
He is known for his contributions to NMR in solids. Among other things, he demonstrated the possibility of structure determination with solid-state NMR, whereby, in contrast to X-ray diffraction, no single crystals have to be present. He also used solid-state NMR on surfaces (with Surface Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy, SENS) and catalysts on surfaces as well as on proteins in the solid phase and on whole living beings (demonstrated in C. elegans ).
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| SURNAME | Emsley, Lyndon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durham |