never forget 7.1核磁共振概述 how to aream NMR Nobel Prize Winners Another Nobel ■1944 Isador Rabi for Magnetic Resonance! Just before going to press we received the most memorable news of the year:The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ■1952 Felix Bloch for 2003 was awaded jointly to Paul C.Lauterbur (Uana IL) and Sir Peter Mansfield (Nottingham.UK)for their pioneering contributions which led to the application of magnetic Edwin Purcell resonance in medical imaging. The list of Nobel laureates in the MR field is impressive. beginning with Isador I.Rabi (Nobel Prize in Physics,1944) for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. The NMR phenomenon was demonstrated for protons in 1946 by Felix Bloch and Edward M.Purcell,USA.(Nobel Prize in Physics,1952).For his fundamental contributions to NMR ■1991 Richard Ernst methodology,Richard Ernst.Zirich,received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,1991:and Kurt Wuthrich,Zunch,shared the Chemistry Prize,2002,for his development of NMR tochniques for determining the 3D structure of biological macromon ■2o02 Kurt Wuthrich solution. A further highlight was this year's Nobel Prize in Physics: Alexeij A.Abrikosow (Argonne,IL)and Vitalij L.Ginzburg (Moscow)were each awarded one-third of the prize for pioneering contributions to the theory of type-ll superconductors,i.e.,those alloys capable of withstanding the high magnetic fields that occur in MR applications. ■2003 Paul Lauterbur We at Bruker BioSpin and all members of the MR community are indebeed to these researchers for their contributions.We enthusiastically congratulate this year's laureates and take their achievements and recognition as further stimuli for our own cfforts Sir Peter Mansfield to improve MR instrumentation and cxpand MR applications. 88 NMR Nobel Prize Winners ◼ 1944 Isador Rabi ◼ 1952 Felix Bloch & Edwin Purcell ◼ 1991 Richard Ernst ◼ 2002 Kurt Wüthrich ◼ 2003 Paul Lauterbur & Sir Peter Mansfield 7.1 核磁共振概述