Robert Tycko

Robert Tycko (born 1959) is an American biophysicist whose research primarily involves solid state NMR, including the development of new methods and applications to various areas of physics, chemistry, and biology. 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. 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, physical properties of fullerenes, skyrmions in 2D electron systems, protein folding, and amyloid fibrils associated with Alzheimer’s disease and prions.

Education

In 1980, 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.

Selected honors

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Biosketch of Robert Tycko at National Academy of Sciences". Retrieved 2025-12-02.
  2. ↑ Thurber, Kent R.; Tycko, Robert (2012). "Theory for cross effect dynamic nuclear polarization under magic-angle spinning in solid state nuclear magnetic resonance: The importance of level crossings". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 137 (8): 084508. doi:10.1063/1.4747449. PMC 3443114. PMID 22938251.
  3. 1 2 3 "Robert Tycko NIH Profile". Retrieved 2025-12-02.
  4. ↑ Tycko, Robert (1987). "Adiabatic rotational splitting and Berry's phase in nuclear quadrupole resonance". 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). "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. ↑ Barrett, S. E.; Dabbagh, G.; Pfeiffer, L. N.; West, K. W.; Tycko, R. (1995). "Optically pumped NMR evidence for finite-size skyrmions in GaAs quantum wells near Landau level filling ν=1". Physical Review Letters. 74 (25): 5112–5115. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.5112.
  7. ↑ Hu, Kan-Nian; Yau, Wai-Ming; Tycko, Robert (2010). "Detection of a transient intermediate in a rapid protein folding process by solid state nuclear magnetic resonance". 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. ↑ "American Physical Society award recipients". Retrieved 2025-12-02..
  10. ↑ "Listing of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science". Retrieved 2025-12-02.
  11. ↑ Greenhouse, Lisa, CSW Hillebrand Award: The Supreme Court of Chemistry, Chemical Society of Washington, archived from the original on 2014-09-11, retrieved 2014-09-09.
  12. ↑ "Protein Society Awards History". Archived from the original on 2014-09-29.