THE NEXT 50 YEARS

Many scientific fields become senescent and of mere historical interest 50 years after the initial discovery. EPR at 50 years, however, is only approaching adolescence. To look forward a bit to what EPR will develop into, let us first look for patterns from the past that continue today. In many of the contributions to this book three themes recur: personal communication, advances in instrumentation, and collaborations between spectroscopists and people with difficult problems…