Waugh, John S.

John S. Waugh PhD; Professor of Chemistry and Institute Professor (retired), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA USA.
After his college graduation (AB Dartmouth College 1949) he enrolled as a teaching assistant in the California Institute of Technology. After completing his PhD thesis in 1952 under the guidance of Professor Don M. Yost on NMR structural studies in solids he remained at Caltech for a year developing instrumentation for radiocarbon dating and teaching a course in nuclear chemistry. He then joined the chemistry faculty of MIT as Instructor (1953-55), Assistant Professor (1955-58), Associate Professor (1959-62), Professor (1962-73), A. A. Noyes Professor (1973-88) and Institute Professor (1988-97). Retired in 1997.
Corresponding Membership in the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1989.
His research career was largely devoted to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) theory and applications, particularly in opening the field of high resolution NMR in the solid state and the development and application of so-called average Hamiltonian theory.

Representative publications:
J. D. Macomber and J. S. Waugh, “Theory of Sideband Production in Spectroscopic Experiments”, Phys. Rev. 140, 1494-1497 (1965).
J. S. Waugh, L. M. Huber and U. Haeberlen, “Approach to High-Resolution NMR in Solids”, Phys. Rev. Letters 20, 180-182 (1968)
U. Haeberlen and J. S. Waugh, “Coherent Averaging Effects in Magnetic Resonance”, Phys. Rev. 175, 453-467 (1968).
W.-K. Rhim, A. Pines and J. S. Waugh, “Violation of the Spin Temperature Hypothesis”, Phys. Rev. Letters 25, 218-220 (1970).
M. Mehring and J. S. Waugh, “Magic-Angle NMR Experiments in Solids”, Phys Rev. B 5, 3459-3471 (1972).
A. Pines, M. G, Gibby and J. S. Waugh, “Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy. A Method for High Resolution NMR of Dilute Spins in Solids”, J. Chem. Phys. 56, 1776-1777 (1972).
A. Pines, M. G. Gibby and J. S. Waugh, “Proton-Enhanced NMR of Dilute Spins in Solids”, J. Chem Phys. 59, 569-590 (1973).
R. K. Hester, J. L. Ackerman, B. L. Neff and J. S. Waugh, “Separated Local Field Spectra in NMR: Determination of Structure of Solids”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 36, 1081-1083 (1976).
Дж. Уо, Ноые Методи ЯМР в Твердых Телах, Издателство «МИР», Москва, 1978.
J. S. Waugh, “Theory of Broadband Spin Decoupling”, J. Magn. Res, 50, 30 (1982), (Reprinted in Magnetic Resonance in Perspective: Highlights of a Quarter Century, Wallace S. Brey, Ed.,. Academic Press, New York (1996), pp. 347-366)
J. S. Waugh, “Equilibrium and ergodicity in small spin systems”, Mol. Phys. 95, 731 (1998).

Principal awards and decorations: American academy of Arts and Sciences (1962-92), Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Fellowship Award, Heidelberg (1972), US National Academy of Sciences (1974), Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (1976), Wolf Prize (1983-84), Pauling Medal (1984), Distinguished Alumnus Award, Caltech (1987), Killian Faculty Achievement Award, MIT (1988), Sc.D. (hon.) Dartmouth College (1989), ISMAR Prize (1989), Richards Medal (1992), Russell Varian Prize (2006).

(August 2010)