Gareth A. Morris

Gareth Alun Morris FRS[5] (born 6 July 1954) is a Professor of Physical Chemistry, in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.[6]

For the British flautist, see Gareth Morris.

Gareth Morris

FRS
Morris in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born
Gareth Alun Morris

(1954-07-06) 6 July 1954[1]
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNMR spectroscopy
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
ThesisNew techniques in fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (1978)
Doctoral advisorRay Freeman[4]
Websitemanchester.ac.uk/research/gareth.morris

Education

Morris was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Magdalen College, Oxford[1] where he was awarded a DPhil in 1978.[4]

Research

Research in the NMR lab along with Prof. Mathias Nilsson, Dr. Jordi Burés and Dr. 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 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.[5]

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.[7]

References
  1. "MORRIS, Prof. Gareth Alun". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. Brown, J. M.; Chaloner, P. A.; Morris, G. A. (1987). "The catalytic resting state of asymmetric homogeneous hydrogenation. Exchange processes delineated by nuclear magnetic resonance saturation-transfer (DANTE) techniques". Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2 (11): 1583. doi:10.1039/P29870001583.
  3. Morris, G. A. (1980). "Sensitivity enhancement in nitrogen-15 NMR: Polarization transfer using the INEPT pulse sequence". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102: 428–429. doi:10.1021/ja00521a097.
  4. Morris, Gareth Alun (1978). New techniques in fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  5. "Professor Gareth Morris FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014.
  7. "Shoolery Award Recipient - SMASH - Small Molecule NMR Conference".


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