Here is a summary of the references I had recommended to me on the
history of NMR. Thanks to everyone who responded. I know this
information will come in handy in the future.
Interestingly, the recurring one was the forthcoming Encyclopedia.
Jeff
Dr. J.H. Simpson "Jeff" jsimpson@science.psc.sc.edu
Director of NMR Services 803-777-2088 ofc
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 803-777-9521 fax
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
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>From stefano.caldarelli@unil.ch
the first volume of the very expensive encyclopedia of NMR is now available
from Wiley. This first part is devoted to a review of historical annedoctes
of some relevance.
[several others also mentioned vol I of the encyclopedia -jhs]
Otherwise M. Goldman has given a couple of lectures with an historical cut,
one of which I believe is in the book that celebrate Abragam's 80th
birthday. Other books to browse in are the ones dedicated to F. Bloch and
the one for H. Hahn 70th birthday. All of the above mentioned sources have
plenty of historical remarks.
>From xia@Cliff.ACS.Oakland.Edu
You can look at R R Ernst's Nobel lecture, published at Angew Chem Int Ed
Engl 1992 31 805-823. very detailed and comprehensive, maybe too much for
pre-meds. Also there were a few articles in Physics Today Oct 1993, about
the early history of NMR.
>From schulte@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu
there are four articles in "Analytical Chemistry" that might be, what you
are looking for:
Vol. 65, No. 17, pp. 725A - 753A (3 NMR articles)
Vol. 65, No. 24, pp. 1068A - 1077A (1 MRI article)
>From toshi@nmr.se
"NMR Imaging in Medicine", by Ian L. Pykett,
Scientific American, vol. 246, no. 5, pp 54 - 64 (May
issue) 1982.
>From pwheeler@isisph.com
If you check out www.varian.com, they give a nice overview of how Varian is
wholly and entirely responsible for all but the most limited aspects of NMR.
OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but they do have a few high points.
>From schwah@rpi.edu
"MRI for Technologists" and does include a lot of the developments in
imaging as well as the foundations of basic nmr.
The survey is in the first chapter, written by Rodney Roemer.
Book edited by P. Woodward and R.D. Freimarck
McGraw-Hill Inc. , Health Professions Division: 1995.