Early Magnetic Resonance Experiments: Roots and Offshoots

OCT 01, 1993

Branches of this fruitful tree led to masers, radiofrequency spectroscopy, the frequency standard and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881382

Norman F. Ramsey

In 1937 I. I. Rabi described the fundamental theory for magnetic resonance experiments in his great paper “Space Quantization in a Gyrating Magnetic Field.” This theory stimulated many subsequent developments, including molecular‐beam magnetic resonance, radiofrequency spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, masers and atomic clocks. Its imprint now stamps a tremendous range of experimental techniques and technological applications.

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Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.