<div dir="auto"></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Baldus, M. (Marc)" <<a href="mailto:M.Baldus@uu.nl">M.Baldus@uu.nl</a>><br>Date: Sep 13, 2017 8:12 AM<br>Subject: [NMR] Nobel Prize winner Nico Bloembergen passed away at age 97<br>To: "<a href="mailto:nmr@listes.sc.univ-paris-diderot.fr">nmr@listes.sc.univ-paris-diderot.fr</a>" <<a href="mailto:nmr@listes.sc.univ-paris-diderot.fr">nmr@listes.sc.univ-paris-diderot.fr</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution">






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<div>Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify">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.</div>
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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.<br>

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Also, please see, for example:<br>

<a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/news/uu-alumnus-and-nobel-prize-winner-nico-bloembergen-passed-away" target="_blank"><font color="blue"><u>https://www.uu.nl/en/news/uu-<wbr>alumnus-and-nobel-prize-<wbr>winner-nico-bloembergen-<wbr>passed-away</u></font></a><br>

<a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/research/nicolaas-bloembergen" target="_blank"><font color="blue"><u>https://www.uu.nl/en/research/<wbr>nicolaas-bloembergen</u></font></a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2017/09/nobel-prize-winner-nicolaas-bloembergen-97-has-passed-away" target="_blank"><font color="blue"><u>https://www.<wbr>universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/<wbr>2017/09/nobel-prize-winner-<wbr>nicolaas-bloembergen-97-has-<wbr>passed-away</u></font></a><br>

<a href="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" target="_blank"><font color="blue"><u>https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/local/obituaries/nicolaas-<wbr>bloembergen-winner-of-nobel-<wbr>prize-in-physics-dies-at-97/<wbr>2017/09/09/2e8af4dc-9335-11e7-<wbr>8754-d478688d23b4_story.html?<wbr>utm_term=.d28e406578ee</u></font></a></div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Marc Baldus</div>
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