Gerhard Wagner (physicist)
Gerhard Wagner (born 1945) is a German-American physicist. Currently the Elkan Rogers Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, he is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences and International Society of Magnetic Resonance.
Gerhard Wagner | |
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Wagner in 2011 giving an NMR lecture | |
| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) Bor, Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Known for | Biological NMR spectroscopy |
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| Institutions | Harvard Medical School |
Wagner is considered one of the pioneers in Biological Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (Bio-NMR) and his research has been focused on protein structure, dynamics and stability, and on the relation of these to protein function. He is a structural biologist and is recognized for his work on the development of NMR spectroscopy for determination of protein structures in solution and characterizing protein dynamics.