Anil Kumar

Biography

Anil Kumar earned his BSc (1959) and MSc (1961) degrees from Meerut College (Agra University). He joined Meerut College as a Lecturer in Physics (1961-64) and then Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, for PhD in Physics and worked on NMR spectroscopy (1964-69) under the supervision of Professor BDN Rao. He did post-doctoral work at Georgia Institute of Technology and at the University of North Carolina. He then went to work with Professor RR Ernst at ETH, Zurich, where he did pioneering developments in two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy including the first Fourier MRI method, which is currently used in all medical MRI protocols. He also worked (1979-80) jointly with Professor Ernst and Wuthrich and did the first two-dimensional NOESY experiments on a protein, which opened the possibility of obtaining the three-dimensional structures of proteins in solution by NMR. An Honorary Professor at IISc (2003-08), at the Centre for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance (CBMR), SGPGI Campus, Lucknow, (2007- ), and at IISER, Mohali (2008-10).

Research Interest

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Applications to Biomolecules and Quantum Computing