to the 2007 National Medal of Science. In 1993 Slichter was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences. In 1969 he received the Langmuir Prize, and 1996 the Buckley Prize, both from the American Physical Society. The American Chemical Society honored his discovery of J-coupling with a Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award in 2016. Slichter was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 1955–1961. Slichter received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of Waterloo (1993) and Leipzig University (2010), and an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Harvard University in 1996. Family Slichter was the son of economist Sumner Slichter, the grandson of mathematician Charles S. Slichter, the nephew of geophysicist Louis B. Slichter, the father of musician Jacob Slichter, and brother of Bell Labs executive William P. Slichter. Books References External links http://www.ebyte.it/library/educards/nmr/Nmr_HebelSlichter.html 1924 births 2018 deaths University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty National Medal of Science laureates Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Harvard University alumni Scientists from Ithaca, New York Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners Members of the American Philosophical Society