Dr. Malcolm Levitt

Biography

Prof Malcolm Levitt joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton in 2000 as a Professor of Physical Chemistry, specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and interdisciplinary study of endofullerenes. He obtained his PhD from Oxford University in 1981 under the supervision of Professor Ray Freeman and performed postdoctoral research at the Shimon Vega in Israel and Richard Ernst at ETH Zürich, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991. Levitt worked at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at MIT for four years before returning to England as a Royal Society Research Fellow at the Centre for Superconductivity in Cambridge. He later became a lecturer at the University of Stockholm in Sweden and achieved the position of full professor in 1997. In 2001, he took a professorship in Physical Chemistry at Southampton. Throughout his career, Levitt has received numerous honors, including the LATSIS Research Prize (1985) and the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry (1996). He is also known for his contributions to magnetic resonance and has received several prestigious awards including the Russell Varian Prize.

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