Ad Bax
Adriaan (Ad) Bax | |
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| Born | Netherlands |
| Education | Delft University of Technology |
| Known for | Methods development for NMR, such as RDCs (Residual dipolar coupling) |
| Awards | Bijvoet Medal of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research (1993)
E. Bright Wilson Award (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear magnetic resonance, biophysics |
| Institutions | NIDDK, National Institutes of Health |
| Thesis | Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Liquids (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ray Freeman and Toon Mehlkopf |
| Notable students | Michael F. Summers |
| Website | spin |
Adriaan "Ad" Bax (born 1956) is a Dutch-American molecular biophysicist who is a Distinguished Investigator at the National Institutes of Health. He is the Chief of the Section on Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. He is known for his work on the methodology of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy. He is a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.