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| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance has changed tremendously from the early days of commercial NMR. The sensitivity of NMR methods has improved dramatically with the advent of Fourier Transform NMR and through the introduction of superconducting magnets and higher magnetic fields, and more recently the use of cryogenically cooled probes. Perhaps equally important to the current wide applicability of NMR, is the advent of “spin physics”, or the ability for the NMR spectroscopist to influence the NMR spectrum by cleverly manipulating the “spins” to change their interactions. Previously, in spectroscopy, there was an identity between the compound and its spectra. Practitioners of spin physics however showed that experiments could be designed to “edit” spectra for spectral simplification, or the measurement of dynamics or physical properties of the molecule. Spin physics combined with FT NMR changed the way we all do NMR today, and an important contributor to this process was the very influential book, Pulsed and Fourier Transform NMR: Introduction to Theory and Methods, by Tom Farrar and Ted Becker, Academic Press, 1971, that taught many early spin physicists the tools of their trade. |
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NMR Then and Now: Honoring Ted Becker, Recipient of the Analytical Chemistry Service Award Supported by Varian, Inc
2:15 PM-4:45 PM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 123, Oral
Division of Analytical Chemistry |