ISMAR is mourning the passing away of Nicolaas Bloembergen, one of the founders of magnetic resonance, a Nobel laureate and an ISMAR Fellow. We convey our condolences to the Bloembergen family.
We copy below the announcement of Marc Baldus
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Dear colleagues,
Last week, Nobel laureate Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen, a pioneer in the field of NMR and laser spectroscopy passed away at age of 97. As an undergraduate Bloembergen studied Physics at Utrecht University from 1938 to 1943 and received his PhD in Physics from Leiden University with C.J. Gorter in 1948 on the topic of Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation. His thesis resulted in the famous BPP (Bloembergen, Purcell and Pound) paper which still serves as a point of departure for understanding many NMR relaxation experiments. In 1973 he returned to Leiden and occupied the Lorentz Chair in Physics. In 1981, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in coherent optics. In 2001 in honour of his achievements, the NMR group at Utrecht University named their laboratory the Bloembergen Building.
For further information on a true scientific giant, please look out for an obituary written by C. Luchinat, R. Boelens, and R. Kaptein that will appear on the Ampere website and in the Ampere newsletter soon.
Also, please see, for example:
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/uu-alumnus-and-nobel-prize-winner-nico-bloembergen-passed-away
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/nicolaas-bloembergen
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2017/09/nobel-prize-winner-nicolaas-bloembergen-97-has-passed-away
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nicolaas-bloembergen-winner-of-nobel-prize-in-physics-dies-at-97/2017/09/09/2e8af4dc-9335-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html?utm_term=.d28e406578ee
Best wishes,
Marc Baldus