Person in history
John S. Waugh
John S. Waugh, American chemist and academic (born 1929)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2014 · August 22
Their story
Who they were
John Stewart Waugh was an American chemist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for developing average hamiltonian theory and using it to extend NMR spectroscopy, previously limited to liquids, to the solid state. He is the author of ANTIOPE, a freeware general purpose Windows-based simulator of the spectra and dynamics of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
Why this date
John S. Waugh appears on our August 22 calendar for 2014 as a death entry.
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Questions about John S. Waugh
When did John S. Waugh die?
August 22 2014.
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