EPR AT HARVARD

Harvard University housed a distinguished group of faculty in the Department of Physics and in the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics who had made numerous seminal contributions to magnetic resonance spectroscopy by 1957, the year of my arrival in the Chemistry Department as a freshman Instructor. Among these faculty, Professors G. Benedek, N. Bloembergen, R. V. Pound, E. M. Purcell, N. F. Ramsey, and J. H. van Vleck come quickly to mind. (R. L. Orbach had yet to arrive at Harvard from the Clarendon Laboratories of Oxford University. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard in 1961.)…