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Nuclear induction

AUG 01, 1950
Recent developments are discussed in this article which was adapted from an invited paper presented before the American Physical Society at its meeting in Washington, D.C. this spring.
Felix Bloch

It is now somewhat over four years since the phenomenon was discovered which is alternately known as “nuclear magnetic resonance absorption” or “nuclear induction”. In the meantime it has become so widely known among physicists that it seems hardly necessary any more to explain it. Nevertheless, for the benefit of those who have not followed closely the developments we shall start with a brief recapitulation of the basic principles.

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Felix Bloch, Stanford University.

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Volume 3, Number 8

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