[NEIU Physics Students] [Fwd: Phys. Rev. Focus--12 DEC 2006]

[Gregory W. Anderson]

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Subject: Phys. Rev. Focus--12 DEC 2006
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:08:58 -0500

PHYSICAL REVIEW FOCUS   12 December 2006   http://focus.aps.org/
David Ehrenstein, American Physical Society

Introductions to the Focus stories of the past week;
visit http://focus.aps.org for the complete stories.

LANDMARKS:  NMR--GRANDMOTHER OF MRI
APS has put the entire Physical Review archive online, back to 1893. 
Focus Landmarks feature important papers from the archive.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), known for its stunningly clear 
pictures of the body's interior, has its roots in experiments that 
measured elementary properties of atomic nuclei. In 1946, researchers 
reported in the Physical Review the first detections of so-called nuclear 
magnetic resonance (NMR) in solids and liquids, work that led to a 
Nobel prize. In the following years, NMR quickly established its mettle 
as an investigative tool in physics and chemistry as well as biology and 
medicine.
(E. M. Purcell et al., Phys. Rev. 69, 37; and
F. Bloch et al., Phys. Rev 69, 127)
Links to the papers: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v69/e37 and
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v69/e127
COMPLETE Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/story/v18/st18

Also from PRL (a story from AIP's Physics News Update):

TWOFOLD SUPERFLUID STATE
Story at http://www.aip.org/pnu/2006/split/804-2.html
(G. B. Partridge et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190407) 

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