Peter Edwin Wright is a scientist, an NMR spectroscopist and a professor at the

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. He is editor-in-chief of the ''

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''. Wright is from New Zealand and studied at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

. He graduated in 1968 with a B.Sc., in 1969 with an M.Sc., and completed his PhD in chemistry in 1972. The title of his doctoral thesis was ''Physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes''. From 1976 to 1984, he was employed by the

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. Since 1984, he has been employed at the Scripps Research Institute. He is a proponent of the theory of conformational sampling being of importance to

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, which is opposed to the theory of electrostatic preorganization.

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