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Chemistry

NMR Spectroscopy

Quick fact

NMR was first observed independently in 1946 by Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell, who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery.

Why this is interesting

You've likely heard of MRI scans for medical imaging, but did you know the same fundamental physics helps chemists determine the structure of molecules? NMR spectroscopy is like a molecular fingerprint reader, decoding the identity of substances without breaking them apart.