Ad Bax

Adriaan (Ad) Bax
Born
Netherlands
EducationDelft University of Technology
Known forMethods development for NMR, such as RDCs (Residual dipolar coupling)
AwardsBijvoet Medal of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research (1993)

E. Bright Wilson Award (2000)
National Academy of Sciences (2002)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
Welch Award in Chemistry (2018)
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (2018)

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear magnetic resonance, biophysics
InstitutionsNIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Thesis Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Liquids  (1981)
Doctoral advisorRay Freeman and Toon Mehlkopf
Websitespin.niddk.nih.gov/bax

Adriaan "Ad" Bax (born 1956) is a Dutch-American molecular biophysicist. He was born in the Netherlands and is the Chief of the Section on Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy at the National Institutes of Health. He is known for his work on the methodology of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy. He is a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.