Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Medicine

Who will profit from reading this book? … students as well as scientists and physicians longing for a quite profound insight, not only into the basic concepts, but also the modern applications of nuclear magnetic resonance … the book will provide valuable suggestions to everyone involved in teaching NMR to chemists and physicians. Angewandte Chemie International Edition As the exposure of the wider scientific community (and the general public) to these techniques continues to increase, this book should be welcomed as a valuable way of making the basic physics behind them understandable to as wide an audience as possible. Chemistry & Industry Particularly welcome is an accessible yet authoritative discussion of the possible physiological effects of uniform magnetic fields, radio frequency radiation and magnetic field gradients. Chemistry & Industry The text is clear and well written, at a level accessible to anyone with a degree level background in physical science. No prior knowledge of any branch of magnetic resonance is assumed, and the amount of mathematics is kept to an absolute minimum … This should not, however, be regarded just as a book for complete novices. It is instructive for anyone with knowledge of one area of magnetic resonance to see the parallels and differences between the two areas clearly explained by Professor Freeman. Chemistry & Industry

Ray Freeman read chemistry at Oxford University and completed his doctorate with R. E. Richards on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. After two years’ postdoctoral research at the French Atomic Energy Commission at Saclay, France, he moved to the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Middlesex. In 1961 he joined Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California, and worked on the methodology of NMR, the design of commercial NMR spectrometers, and the development of new Fourier transform techniques. In 1973 he was appointed Lecturer at Oxford University and a Tutor and Fellow of Magdalen College, building up a research group on NMR methodology in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979. In 1987 he was appointed to the John Humphrey Plummer chair of Magnetic Resonance in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.