Gareth A. Morris

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Gareth Morris
FRS
Gareth Morris at the Royal Society admissions day in 2014
Born
Gareth Alun Morris

(1954-07-06) 6 July 1954 (age 69)[3]
EducationRoyal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNMR spectroscopy[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
ThesisNew techniques in fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (1978)
Doctoral advisorRay Freeman[2]
Websitemanchester.ac.uk/research/gareth.morris

Gareth Alun Morris

School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.[1][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Education

Morris was educated at the

Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and the University of Oxford where he was a student of Magdalen College, Oxford.[3] He was awarded a Master of Arts degree followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1978.[2]

Research

Research in the NMR lab along with Mathias Nilsson, Jordi Burés and Ralph Adams involves the development of novel nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques, and their application to problems in chemistry, biochemistry, and medicine.

Awards and honours

Morris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:

Gareth Morris is one of the world's foremost innovators in high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and has had a major influence on the determination of chemical structure by NMR. Almost all commercial NMR spectrometers contain hardware and software that he originated, including deuterium gradient shimming (now standard on commercial spectrometers) and ingenious pulse sequences such as DANTE (the prototypical selective excitation sequence) and INEPT (now a key component of multidimensional NMR techniques, including many of those used for protein 3D structure determination). The impact and wide applicability of Morris's contributions have made them indispensable components of the state-of-the-art NMR toolkit.[6]

Morris received the James Shoolery Award 2015 awarded by SMASH (Small molecule NMR conference):

It is hard to imagine an NMR laboratory in the world which is not influenced daily by his developments from the foundations of INEPT and DANTE, through to modern gradient shimming, DOSY and pure shift methods.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b Gareth A. Morris publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Morris, Gareth Alun (1978). New techniques in fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281964. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. doi:10.1039/P29870001583
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  5. doi:10.1021/ja00521a097
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  6. ^ a b "Professor Gareth Morris FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014.
  7. PMID 22152346
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  8. ^ Gareth A. Morris publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. doi:10.1021/ja00497a058
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  10. doi:10.1016/0022-2364(76)90150-5
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  11. doi:10.1016/0022-2364(81)90272-9
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  12. S2CID 95455095
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  13. ^ "Shoolery Award Recipient - SMASH - Small Molecule NMR Conference".


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