Jack H. Freed
American chemist
Jack Herschel Freed (born April 19, 1938) is an American chemist known for his pioneering work in electron paramagnetic resonance (aka electron spin resonance) spectroscopy. He is the Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry, emeritus, at Cornell University.
Biography
Jack Freed was born in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1958 from Yale University and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1962 from Columbia University.
Freed is currently the Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry, emeritus, in the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University. In 2001, Freed founded the National Biomedical Center for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance Technology (ACERT) funded by National Institutes of Health and has been its director since then. In 2004, he was an editor for Journal of Physical Chemistry. Before that he was a fellow in numerous places such as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies, and Weizmann Institute of Science.
In 2023, he received two grants totalling $7.8 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to use electron-spin resonance (ESR) for the benefit of public health. Located in Baker Lab on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, this national resource will provide cutting-edge ESR spectroscopy for biomedical researchers engaged in projects aimed at understanding and combating diseases and ailments.
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