Encounters in magnetic resonances : selected papers of Nicolaas Bloembergen, edited by Nicolaas Bloembergen.
Contributor(s): Bloembergen, N
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BookSeries: World Scientific series in 20th century physics: no.15.Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific, 1996Description: x, 550 p. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9810225903 .Subject(s): Nuclear magnetic resonance | Electron paramagnetic resonance | Relaxation (Nuclear physics)DDC classification: 538.36 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 538.36 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00069904 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book presents a selection of papers, written by Nicolaas Bloembergen and his associates during the years 1946-1962, on the subjects of nuclear magnetic relaxation, paramagnetic relaxation and masers, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy of solids. The volume begins with autobiographical notes to provide a personal historical background. Each paper is preceded by commentary with additional information regarding the early development of magnetic resonance in condensed matter. A reproduction of his Ph.D. thesis, "Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation", Leiden, 1948, is included in this volume.
Includes bibliographical references.
Nuclear magnetic relaxation -- Paramagnetic relaxation and masers -- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of solids.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Nicolaas Bloembergen was born in Dordrecht, the Netherlands on March 11, 1920. He received a bachelor's degree in 1941 and a master's degree in 1943 from the University of Utrecht. After graduating, he spent the next two years hiding from the Nazis. After World War II, he moved to the United States to attend Harvard University and work on nuclear magnetic resonance. He returned to the Netherlands to receive a PhD at the University of Leiden in 1948 and defend his thesis. He returned to Harvard in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1958.He became a professor at Harvard in 1951 and stayed there until his retirement in 1990. He was considered the father of nonlinear optics, which investigates how electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter. He received the National Medal of Science in 1974 and shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow and Kai M. Siegbahn for his contributions to laser spectroscopy. After retiring from Harvard, Bloembergen became a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, in 1991. He wrote several books including Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation and Encounters in Magnetic Resonances: Selected Papers of Nicolaas Bloembergen. He died from cardiorespiratory failure on September 5, 2017 at the age of 97.
(Bowker Author Biography)