Levitt, Malcolm - University of Southampton

个人简介

Malcolm Levitt grew up in Hull and obtained his PhD from Oxford University in 1981, under the supervision of Professor Ray Freeman. He performed postdoctoral research with Shimon Vega in Israel and Richard Ernst at the ETH in Zürich (who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991). He was then on the research staff at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at MIT, Boston, USA, for 4 years. He moved back to England as a Royal Society Research Fellow at the Centre for Superconductivity in Cambridge, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, where he was made a full professor in 1997. He moved back to England to take up a Professorship in Physical Chemistry at Southampton in April 2001. Malcolm was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. He won the LATSIS research prize of the ETH-Zürich in 1985, the Göran Gustafsson prize in Chemistry in 1996, the Ampère prize from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in 2005, the Günther Laukien prize in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in 2008, and the Russell Varian prize in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in 2015. He is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Magnetic Resonance and the Journal of Chemical Physics. He published Spin Dynamics, a textbook on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, in 2001. The second Edition was published in 2007.

研究领域

Our group develops new experimental techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and applies those techniques to systems of interest in biology and materials science. For example, we have developed new NMR techniques for determining the atomic-scale structure in non-crystalline solids, and have applied those methods to the membrane protein rhodopsin and to the class of inorganic network solids called zeolites. We are currently working on extending solid-state NMR to the study of samples at very low temperatures, which will allow us to achieve higher signal strength and allow the study of cryogenic physical phenomena such as quantum rotation by NMR. We have also demonstrated the existence of nuclear spin states with unusually long lifetimes in room-temperature liquids, and are currently exploring the possibilities of exploiting such long-lived nuclear spin states for NMR imaging.

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Quantum rotation of ortho and para-water encapsulated in a fullerene cage - Beduz, Carlo, Carravetta, Marina, Chen, Judy Y.- C., Concistre, Maria, Denning, Mark, Frunzi, Michael, Horsewill, Anthony J., Johannessen, Ole G., Lawler, Ronald, Lei, Xuegong, Levitt, Malcolm H., Li, Yongjun, Mamone, Salvatore, Murata, Yasujiro, Nagel, Urmas, Nishida, Tomoko, Ollivier, Jacques, Rols, Stephane, Room, Toomas, Sarkar, Riddhiman, Turro, Nicholas J. and Yang, Yifeng Published:2012Publication:Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesVolume:109, (32)Page Range:12894-12898doi:10.1073/pnas.1210790109 Double-quantum 13C nuclear magnetic resonance of bathorhodopsin, the first photointermediate in mammalian vision - Concistre, Maria, Gansmuller, Axel, McLean, Neville, Johannessen, Ole G., Montesinos, Ildefonso Marin, Bovee-Geurts, Petra H.M., Verdegem, Peter, Lugtenburg, Johan, Brown, Richard C. D., DeGrip, Willem J. and Levitt, Malcolm H. Published:2008Publication:Journal of the American Chemical SocietyVolume:130, (32)Page Range:10490-10491doi:10.1021/ja803801u Singlet nuclear magnetic resonance of nearly-equivalent spins - Tayler, Michael C.D. and Levitt, Malcolm H. Published:2011Publication:Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsVolume:13, (13)Page Range:5556-5560doi:10.1039/C0CP02293D Storage of nuclear magnetization as long-lived singlet order in low magnetic field - Pileio, Giuseppe, Carravetta, Marina and Levitt, Malcolm H. Published:2010Publication:Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesVolume:107, (40)Page Range:17135-17139doi:10.1073/pnas.1010570107