Adriaan "Ad" Bax was born on 1956 and is a Dutch-American molecular biophysicist who is a Distinguished Investigator at the National Institutes of Health.
12 Facts About Ad Bax
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Ad Bax 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.
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Ad Bax is known for his work on the methodology of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy.
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Ad Bax 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.
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Ad Bax continued as a postdoc with Gary Maciel in the National Solid-State facility at Colorado State University, before joining the NIH's Laboratory of Chemical Physics in 1983.
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Ad Bax was awarded the 2018 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing in structural biology and the 2018 Welch Award in Chemistry.
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Ad Bax was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2024.
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Ad Bax collaborated extensively with fellow NIH scientists Marius Clore, Angela Gronenborn and Dennis Torchia in the development of multidimensional protein NMR.
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Ad Bax pioneered the development of triple resonance experiments and technology for resonance assignment of isotopically enriched proteins.
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Ad Bax pioneered the use of residual dipolar couplings and chemical shifts for determining DNA and protein structures.
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Ad Bax was the world's most cited chemist over two decades.
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Ad Bax's group developed novel technologies for capturing exhaled breath particles in a manner that enables quantitative chemical analysis of lung fluid by NMR and mass spectrometry.