Clyde A. Hutchison Jr.
Clyde Allen Hutchison Jr. was an American chemist notable for his research in magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Hutchison was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and
a chairman and professor of the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago.
He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
a fellow of the American Physical Society,
a member of the American Chemical Society,
Guggenheim fellow at Oxford University,
the George Eastman Professor at Oxford University,
and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He was also a recipient of the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. He served as editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics from 1953 - 1955 and again from 1958 - 1959.
Hutchison participated in the Manhattan Project.
The University of Chicago said that Hutchison "pioneered research in magnetic resonance spectroscopy".
Chronology
- 1913: born May 5 in Alliance, Ohio.
- 1933: a bachelor's degree from Cedarville College
- 1937: Ph.D. from Ohio State University
- 1937–1939: a National Research Council Fellow and worked with Nobel laureate Harold Urey at Columbia University
- 1939: an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Buffalo
- 1940–1945: member of the Manhattan Project at Columbia University and the University of Virginia
- 1945–1983: member of the faculty of the University of Chicago's Department of Chemistry
- * chairman of the department of chemistry 1959-1963
- * elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963
- 1983: retirement
- 2005: died of prostate cancer on Aug. 29 at Montgomery Place Retirement Community in Chicago at age 92