Kurt Wüthrich

Kurt Wüthrich (2014) - A Personal View of the History of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine

In 1952, Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the description of the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Over the years, NMR has been used in a wide range of fundamental studies in physics, and in the 1960s it became an important analytical tool in all branches of chemistry