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The John C. Polanyi Award is presented for excellence by a scientist carrying out research in Canada in physical, theoretical or computational chemistry or chemical physics.
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The 2025 winner of the John C. Polanyi Award is:
David Bryce, MCIC
University of Ottawa
David L. Bryce (Ph.D. 2002, Dalhousie University; PDF 2003-04, NIDDK/NIH) is Full Professor and University Research Chair in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at the University of Ottawa. He is also the past Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His current research interests include solid-state NMR of low-frequency quadrupolar nuclei, NMR studies of materials, NMR crystallography, halogen bonding, mechanochemistry, and quantum chemical interpretation of NMR interaction tensors. He is the author of approximately 200 scientific publications and two books. His group has authored NMR software products downloaded hundreds of times in 25 countries. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Section Editor (Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Spectroscopy) for the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. From 2006-2020, he served as the Chair of Canada’s National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids. He is a winner of the Gerhard Herzberg Award of the Canadian Association of Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy. He was co-chair of the 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) conference and of the 2022 Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance Solid-State NMR Symposium.