Emeritus Professor David M. Grant Passes Away

David Morris Grant, 82, died of natural causes on April 13, 2013 at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. Distinguished Professor Grant was former Chair of the Department of Chemistry and former Dean of the College of Science. He was a pioneer in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry. The David M. Grant NMR Center was named in his honor in 2006. In his career, Prof. Grant received the Department of Chemistry’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology, the University’s Distinguished Alumnus accolade, and the prestigious Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence. Read more about his life in his obituary from the Deseret News.