Pound, Robert

POUND, ROBERT (1919-). Pound is a Canadian-born American physicist who pioneered many fruitful ideas and is especially remembered for co-discovering, with Purcell, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and establishing it as one of physics most valuable analytical techniques. NMR is used as an analytical technique in chemical research, medical diagnosis, and a number of other fields. 

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McConnell HM (1967) Proc Robert A. Welch Pound Conf Chem Res 11 144... 

The Problem Robert has been taking 80 mg of a medication every day. When it was prescribed, he weighed 170 pounds. He s lost 30 pounds, so how much should the new dosage be ... 

Create a proportion with 80 mg and 170 pounds in one fraction and 140 pounds in the other fraction. The 140 is found by subtracting 170-30 to determine Robert s new weight. Be sure to put the 140 pounds opposite the 170 pounds in the proportion. 

Robert Pound kept very detailed records of the Purcell experiment. Such details are not available for the Bloch experiment. We do, however, know that their first attempt occurred during the fall of 1945 and that it was a failure. In a second attempt, shortly after... 

Figure 14.4 Robert V. Pound, Henry C. Tbrrey, and Edward M. Purcell (left to right) at the retirement of Tbrrey from Rutgers University. This same photograph appeared on a poster celebrating the fiftieth anniversary at Harvard University of the discovery of NMR.

Many of the details that follow were drawn from Professor Robert Pound s detailed records. I am grateful to Pound for this information. 

Courtesy Robert V Pound. Photograph by Mrs. Henry Tbrrey. 

FIGURE 160. Becher was nothing if not a venture capitalist, and here is the portable furnace he invented and marketed. One of these was purchased for twelve pounds by Robert Boyle. (From Becher s 1660 Natur--Kundigung der Metallen from The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, a collection in the Othmer Library, CHE)... 

Today the most useful chemical instrument is probably the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), vital in modern medicine, is derived from NMR. In late 1945, a physics group at Stanford, led by Felix Bloch (1905-83) (with William W. Hanson [1909-49] and Martin W. Packard), and one at Harvard, led by Edward M. Purcell (1912-97) (with Henry C. Tbrrey [1911-99] and Robert V. Pound [1919- ]), independently discovered the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance. In order to manifest NMR an atomic nucleus must have nonzero nuclear spin. Of the roughly 100 stable isotopes that have nonzero nuclear spin, H, present in the vast majority of... 

Several members of this committee were critical of DuPont s profiting from America s war effort. What Pierre had asked for — and had received — in the original contract, was 13.5 million in constmction commission for building a 90 million government-owned plant. In addition, DuPont would receive 5c per pound for every pound of powder delivered. And if the cost of production fell below 44.5c per pound, DuPont would keep half of the savings. One member of the committee, St. Louis businessman Robert Brookings, believed that DuPont s actual production cost was about 35c per pound. If this were accurate, the company would earn an additional 30 million on the first government production order for 450 million pounds of powder. On the advice of the War Industries Board, Newton Baker cancelled the contract." ... 

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