| RefNo | EC/1984/01 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XXI, 137 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Andrew, Edward Raymond: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1981 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance over 35 years, during which he has been concerned with early development of many techniques now widely used by chemists and biologists. Professor Andrew made some of the earliest studies of nmr in molecular solids and studied line narrowing due to molecular motion. He did some particularly elegant work on solid benzene and solid cyclohexane in 1953. He studied structures, conformational motion and order, relaxation mechanisms and quadrupolar interactions in solids. As early as 1958, Professor Andrew showed that by spinning the sample at the 'magic angle', dipolar broadening could be removed, and went on to show how chemical shifts, spin multiplets and other effects could then be resolved. This method has only been adopted by other workers in recent years and has proved to be of great importance. In 1976 Andrew and Hinshaw proposed the so-called 'sensitive point' method for spin imaging, and Andrew and his collaborators have developed and extended this method. An instrument using this principle has been constructed for producing images of the fluid distribution in human patients and will be compared with other methods for obtaining nmr images. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7164 | Andrew; Edward Raymond (1921 - 2001) | 1921 - 2001 |