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Nicolaas Bloembergen

Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for work in laser spectroscopy

Netherlands / United States · 1920–2017

Physicist who worked on nuclear magnetic resonance at Harvard under Edward Purcell and later founded the field of non-linear optics. Shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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I’ve been lucky that the two topics that have interested me have both lead to very important applications. In the case of nuclear magnetic resonance, the thesis data, in my thesis, concerned what is called nuclear magnetic relaxation in liquids and also some solid materials, but most importantly we measured the relaxation time of protons in water and aqueous solutions, the influence of viscosity and temperature, and those data are now the basis in which MRI pictures can be taken

Recorded Marika Griehsel, 54th meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, The Nobel Prize, June 2004 source ↗

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