NUCLEAR-MAGNETIC-RESONANCE IN BULK MATTER

In early 1946 the Physical Review published letters from the two discoverers of nuclear magnetic resonance describing their independent detections of nmr in bulk matter. In recognition of their pioneering research, which they carried out simultaneously, albeit in different places and with different conceptual bases, Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics.Basic research on assemblies of nuclear gyromagnetic moments led to powerful techniques for studying molecular structure and solid lattices—and to a modern medical diagnostic tool. © 1993, American Institute of Physics. All rights reserved.