Gareth Morris is one of the world's foremost innovators in high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and has had a major influence on the determination of chemical structure by NMR. Almost all commercial NMR spectrometers contain hardware and software that he originated, including deuterium gradient shimming (now standard on commercial spectrometers) and ingenious pulse sequences such as DANTE (the prototypical selective excitation sequence) and INEPT (now a key component of multidimensional NMR techniques, including many of those used for protein 3D structure determination). The impact and wide applicability of Morris's contributions have made them indispensable components of the state-of-the-art NMR toolkit.[6]
Morris received the James Shoolery Award 2015 awarded by SMASH (Small molecule NMR conference):
It is hard to imagine an NMR laboratory in the world which is not influenced daily by his developments from the foundations of INEPT and DANTE, through to modern gradient shimming, DOSY and pure shift methods.[13]
^Brown, J. M.; Chaloner, P. A.; Morris, G. A. (1987). "The catalytic resting state of asymmetric homogeneous hydrogenation. Exchange processes delineated by nuclear magnetic resonance saturation-transfer (DANTE) techniques". Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2 (11): 1583. doi:10.1039/P29870001583.
^Morris, G. A. (1980). "Sensitivity enhancement in nitrogen-15 NMR: Polarization transfer using the INEPT pulse sequence". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102: 428–429. doi:10.1021/ja00521a097.
^Morris, G. A.; Freeman, R (2011). "Selective excitation in Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance. 1978". Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 213 (2): 214–43. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2011.08.031. PMID22152346.
^Gareth A. Morris publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^Morris, G. A.; Freeman, R. (1979). "Enhancement of nuclear magnetic resonance signals by polarization transfer". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 101 (3): 760–762. doi:10.1021/ja00497a058.
