Robert Guy Griffin (born 1942) is a Professor of Chemistry and director of the

Francis Bitter Francis Bitter (July 22, 1902 – July 26, 1967) was an American physicist. Bitter invented the Bitter plate used in resistive magnets (also called Bitter electromagnets). He also developed the water cooling method inherent to the design of Bi ...

Magnet Laboratory at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT). He is known for his work in

nuclear magnetic resonance Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are disturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a ...

(NMR) and developing high-field

dynamic nuclear polarisation Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is one of several Hyperpolarization (physics), hyperpolarization methods developed to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. While an essential analytical tool with application ...

(DNP) for the study of biological solids. He has contributed many different methods and approaches now widely used in solid-state NMR spectroscopy, in particular in context of magic-angle-spinning NMR. For example, this extends to methods for resolution enhancement via heteronuclear decoupling, as well as techniques for polarisation transfer between nuclei (to enable structure determination of crystallised and aggregated proteins). He was awarded the ISMAR (International Society of Magnetic Resonance ) Prize in 2010 and the Günther Laukien Prize for NMR research in 2007. In 2018, he received the Bijvoet Medal of the

Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research The Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research is a research institute at Utrecht University. The Bijvoet Centre performs Structural biology, research on the relation between the structure and function of biomolecules, including proteins and lipids, ...

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In 2021, he was elected member of the U. S.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Griffin, Robert G. 1942 births Living people 21st-century American chemists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Bijvoet Medal recipients