Robert Pound, physicist whose work advanced medicine, is dead at 90
APR 20, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024262
New York Times : With his student Glen Rebka in 1959, Pound measured the gravitational redshift and confirmed a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. With his Harvard colleagues Edward Purcell and Henry Torrey in 1946, he discovered nuclear magnetic resonance, the phenomenon that underlies magnetic resonance imaging.
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