Tag: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

  • Nation & World

    Developing micron-sized magnetic resonance

    Harvard scientists have developed a system that uses nitrogen-vacancy centers — atomic-scale impurities in diamonds — to read the nuclear magnetic resonance signals produced by samples as small as a single cell — and they did it on a shoestring budget using a 53-year-old, donated electromagnet.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Charles Slichter, longtime Corporation member, dies at 94

    Charles Pence Slichter ’45-’46, A.M. ’47, Ph.D. ’49, an internationally known physicist who won the National Medal of Science in 2007 and served on the Harvard Corporation for a quarter-century, died on Feb. 19. He was 94.

    5 minutes
    Charles Pence Slichter
  • Nation & World

    A new view of DNA

    A new imaging technique, developed by Erez Lieberman-Aiden, a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, is giving scientists their first three-dimensional view of the human genome, one that is already shedding new light on a number of what Liberman-Aiden calls the “central mysteries of biology.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wizard at circuits, physics

    Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.

    5 minutes