Dr. Roderick Wasylishen
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Alberta
Election Year
1998
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Chemistry
Department
Department of Chemistry
Keywords
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, molecular structure (and spectroscopy), chemical shielding and spin-spin coupling tensors, electric field gradients and electric quadrupole interactions, NMR microscopy
Roderick Wasylishen, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, is a leading practitioner of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the most widely used technique for the determination of unknown chemical structures. He is distinguished for his brilliant work on the directional properties of chemical shifts, spin-spin coupling constants, electric quadrupolar interactions and the dipolar couplings of various nuclei, as well as for the establishment of some absolute shielding scales. His work forms a bridge between the spectra of liquids and solids, which theorists will be able to use to test their theories and approximations and to obtain an understanding of these critical properties of matter.