Robert Tycko

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Robert Tycko is an American biophysicist whose research primarily involves solid state NMR, including the development of new methods and applications [1] to various areas of physics, chemistry, and biology. [2] He is a member of the Laboratory of Chemical Physics in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. [3] He was formerly a member of the Physical Chemistry Research and Materials Chemistry Research departments of AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. His work has contributed to our understanding of geometric phases in spectroscopy, [4] physical properties of fullerenes, [5] skyrmions in 2D electron systems, [6] protein folding, [7] and amyloid fibrils [8] associated with Alzheimer’s disease and prions.

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Education

Tycko received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University, where he majored in chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, under the direction of Alexander Pines, and then did postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania in the laboratory of Prof. Stanley J. Opella. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Thurber, Kent R.; Tycko, Robert (2012). "Citations of 'Theory for cross effect dynamic nuclear polarization under magic-angle spinning in solid state nuclear magnetic resonance: The importance of level crossings;, K.R. Thurber and R. Tycko, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 084508". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 137 (8): 084508. doi:10.1063/1.4747449. PMC   3443114 . PMID   22938251.
  2. ↑ "Robert Tycko NIH Profile: Past Work".
  3. ↑ "Robert Tycko NIH Lab Website".
  4. ↑ Tycko, Robert (1987). "Citations of 'Adiabatic rotational splitting and Berry's phase in nuclear quadrupole resonance", R. Tycko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2281'". Physical Review Letters. 58 (22): 2281–2284. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.2281. PMID   10034704.
  5. ↑ Tycko, R.; Dabbagh, G.; Fleming, R. M.; Haddon, R. C.; Makhija, A. V.; Zahurak, S. M. (1991). "Citations of 'Molecular dynamics and the phase transition in solid C60'". Physical Review Letters. 67 (14): 1886–1889. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1886. PMID   10044276.
  6. ↑ "Citations of 'Optically pumped NMR evidence for finite-size skyrmions in GaAs quantum wells near Landau level filling ν = 1', S.E. Barrett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 5112".
  7. ↑ Hu, Kan-Nian; Yau, Wai-Ming; Tycko, Robert (2010). "Citations of 'Detection of a transient intermediate in a rapid protein folding process by solid state nuclear magnetic resonance', K.-N. Hu, W.-M. Yau, and R. Tycko, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 24". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (1): 24–25. doi:10.1021/ja908471n. PMC   2805027 . PMID   20000466.
  8. ↑ Petkova, A. T.; Leapman, R. D.; Guo, Z.; Yau, W. M.; Mattson, M. P.; Tycko, R. (2005). "Self-propagating, molecular-level polymorphism in Alzheimer's β-amyloid fibrils". Science. 307 (5707): 262–265. Bibcode:2005Sci...307..262P. doi:10.1126/science.1105850. PMID   15653506. S2CID   24176417.
  9. ↑ Tycko, Robert (March 2012), Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2014-09-09.
  10. ↑ American Physical Society Robert Tycko Webpage .
  11. ↑ AAAS Fellow listing, retrieved 2014-09-09.
  12. ↑ Greenhouse, Lisa, CSW Hillebrand Award: The Supreme Court of Chemistry, Chemical Society of Washington, retrieved 2014-09-09.
  13. ↑ "Protein Society Awards History". Archived from the original on 2013-04-06.
  14. ↑ "2020 Press release of National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected".
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