Malcolm Harris Levitt was born on 1957 and is a British physical chemist and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist.
14 Facts About Malcolm Levitt
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Malcolm Levitt is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.
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Malcolm Levitt is the author of the textbook "Spin Dynamics: Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance" and has published extensively on the quantum mechanics and spectroscopy of endofullerenes.
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Malcolm Levitt has received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the Gunther Laukien Prize in 2008, the Russell Varian Prize in 2015, and the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 2021.
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Malcolm Levitt studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, at Keble College.
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Malcolm Levitt undertook a series of international postdoctoral research stays after completing his doctorate.
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Malcolm Levitt became a lecturer at Stockholm University, Sweden in 1991 and was promoted to professor.
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Malcolm Levitt is best known as the inventor of the composite pulse and composite pulse decoupling sequences in solution NMR.
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Malcolm Levitt is the author of the textbook Spin Dynamics.
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Malcolm Levitt has published extensively on the quantum mechanics and spectroscopy of endofullerenes.
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Malcolm Levitt was awarded the Gunther Laukien Prize in Magnetic Resonance in 2008 for his work on "optimized pulses and pulse sequences to enhance the power of liquid and solid state NMR".
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Malcolm Levitt was awarded the final Russell Varian Prize in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in 2015 for his work on composite pulses.
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Malcolm Levitt was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 2021.
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Malcolm Levitt has been invited as the plenary speaker of major NMR academic conferences on multiple occasions, often in consecutive years.