This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches for the period 1971-1980. Each Nobel lecture is based on the work that won the Laureate his prize. New biographcial data of the Laureates, since they were awarded the Nobel Prize are also included.

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which has evolved only within the last 20 years, has become one of the very important tools in chemistry and physics. The literature on its theory and application has grown immensely and a comprehensive and adequate treatment of all branches by one author, or even by several, becomes increasingly difficult. This series is planned to present articles written by experts working in various fields of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and will contain review articles as well as progress reports and original work. Its main aim, however, is to fill a...

The increasing interest in NMR spectroscopy of what in some confer ences in this field is commonly termed "other nuclei" is unmistakable. Chemists and biologists who employ NMR spectroscopy to study their problems have, however, been somewhat reluctant to study nuclei with electric quadrupole moments. These nuclei frequently give rise to broad NMR signals, sometimes too broad to be detectable with ordinary high resolution NMR spectrometers. Spectrometers that could cope with broad NMR signals of low intensity, "wide-line" spectrometers, have been available since the mid 1950: s but it appears...

This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches for the period 1971-1980.