| Authorised form of name | Andrew; Edward Raymond (1921 - 2001) |
| Dates | 1921 - 2001 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Lincolnshire |
| Date of birth | 27/06/1921 |
| Date of death | 27/05/2001 |
| Activity | Education:
Wellingborough School; Cambridge University. PhD
Career:
Staff, Royal Radar Establishment (World War II); spent a year at Harvard University (1948); Lecturer, St Andrew's University (1949); one of earliest practitioners of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) in Britain; Professor, Bangor (1954); helped to found British Radiospectroscopy Group; Visiting Professor, University of Florida (1969); Head, Physics Department, Nottingham University (1964); Dean, Faculty of Science, Nottingham University (1975-1978); NMR physics group, University of Florida (1983); developed inoperable cancer
Memberships:
Ampere Group (President 1974-1980); International Society of Magnetic Resonance (President 1984-1987); British Radiospectroscopy Group (Founder Chairman 1956; President)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1984 |
| Age at election | 62 |
| Royal Society activity | Lectures:
Wellcome 1984 |
| Relationships | Married: (1948) Mary (she died 1965), twin daughters; 2) (1972) Eunice |
| Sources | Sources:
Obituary: Times 19 June 2001
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 1-14, plate, by Norman Sheppard |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/908062 |
| Royal Society code | NA7164 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8334/B | Andrew, Edward Raymond | 1984 |
| RR/70/4 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The intermediate state of superconductors. II. The resistance of cylindrical superconductors in transverse magnetic fields' by Edward Raymond Andrew | 16 January 1948 |
| RR/70/5 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The intermediate state of superconductors III. Theory of behaviour of superconducting cylinders in transverse magnetic fields' by Edward Raymond Andrew | 16 January 1948 |
| EC/1984/01 | Andrew, Edward Raymond: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1981 |
| WF/650 | Grant application from The University of Nottingham to the Wolfson Foundation | 1 January 1976 |
| RR/77/194 | Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'A nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of solid cyclohexane' by Edward Raymond Andrew and R G Eades | 13 October 1952 |
| RR/79/47 | Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'A nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of three solid benzenes' by Edward Raymond Andrew and R G Eades | 17 March 1953 |