Malcolm Levitt facts for kids

Malcolm Harris Levitt is a British scientist. He is a professor who studies NMR. NMR is a special way to learn about atoms and molecules. Professor Levitt works at the University of Southampton. In 2007, he was chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is a very important award for scientists.

Malcolm Levitt's Education and Career

Malcolm Levitt studied chemistry at the University of Oxford. He went to Keble College there. During his studies, he really liked the lessons given by Ray Freeman. Ray Freeman was already a famous expert in NMR.

Malcolm Levitt worked with Ray Freeman on a project. After that, he continued to work with Freeman for his doctorate degree. Since then, he has always been involved in NMR research.

After getting his doctorate, Levitt worked in different countries.

• In 1982, he worked in Israel at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
• From 1982 to 1985, he worked in Switzerland at ETH Zurich with Richard Ernst.
• From 1990 to 1997, he was a scientist at MIT in the USA.

In 1991, he became a teacher at Stockholm University in Sweden. Later, he became a professor there. In 2001, he moved to the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton in the UK.

What Malcolm Levitt Researches

Professor Levitt is well known for inventing special ways to use NMR. These are called "composite pulses" and "composite pulse decoupling sequences." He also helped create other NMR methods. These methods are used to study materials in different forms.

He also wrote a textbook called Spin Dynamics. Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. This book teaches about how NMR works.

He has also written many papers about tiny molecules called endofullerenes. He uses different scientific tools to study them. These tools include terahertz and infrared spectroscopy. He also uses inelastic neutron scattering and NMR.

Awards and Special Honours

Malcolm Levitt has received many important awards for his work.

• In 2008, he won the Günther Laukien Prize. This was for his work on improving NMR methods.
• In 2015, he received the Russell Varian Prize for his work on composite pulses.
• In 2021, he was given the Davy Medal by the Royal Society.

When he was a teacher in Sweden, he won the Göran Gustafsson Prize for Chemistry in 1996. As a young researcher, he won the Latsis research prize in 1985. This prize was given by the Latsis Foundation at ETH Zurich.

Professor Levitt has also been asked to speak at many big NMR science meetings. He is often invited to speak in a main session.

Malcolm Levitt's Early Life

Malcolm Levitt was born in 1957. He was born in a town called Hull in England. He is married and has one daughter.