Robert Tycko is an American biophysicist whose research primarily involves solid state NMR, including the development of new methods and applications[1] to various areas of physics, chemistry, and biology.[2] He is a member of the Laboratory of Chemical Physics in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.[3] He was formerly a member of the Physical Chemistry Research and Materials Chemistry Research departments of AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. His work has contributed to our understanding of geometric phases in spectroscopy,[4] physical properties of fullerenes,[5] skyrmions in 2D electron systems,[6] protein folding,[7] and amyloid fibrils[8] associated with Alzheimer’s disease and prions.
^Tycko, Robert (1987). "Citations of 'Adiabatic rotational splitting and Berry's phase in nuclear quadrupole resonance", R. Tycko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2281'". Physical Review Letters. 58 (22): 2281–2284. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.2281. PMID10034704.
^Tycko, R.; Dabbagh, G.; Fleming, R. M.; Haddon, R. C.; Makhija, A. V.; Zahurak, S. M. (1991). "Citations of 'Molecular dynamics and the phase transition in solid C60'". Physical Review Letters. 67 (14): 1886–1889. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1886. PMID10044276.