Ad Bax

Adriaan (Ad) Bax
Adriaan (Ad) Bax
Born	Netherlands
Education	Delft University of Technology
Known for	Methods development for NMR, such as RDCs (Residual dipolar coupling)
Awards	Bijvoet 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
Fields	Nuclear magnetic resonance, biophysics
Institutions	NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Thesis	Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Liquids (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Ray Freeman and Toon Mehlkopf
Website	spin.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.