ENC, a motor of progress in NMR

Abstract

AbstractDuring the course of my scientific career I have accumulated an uncountable number of debts to people, organizations, and fortunate events. I am particularly obliged to a long series of Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conferences, the ENC's. Not only have they been an invaluable source of inspiration and an occasion for establishing new friendships, but the yearly ENC had, and still has, the same function as the first warm Sunday afternoon in spring time when people are eagerly promenading and showing their most pretty dress, prepared with much love during the preceding dark winter months. Each ENC is a landmark, an hour of truth where success or failure of the previous twelve months of intense research becomes evident.Indeed from 1964 to very recently, I was working and living truly from ENC to ENC, having only one thought in mind: to be properly prepared with a new experiment or a new revealing insight to be presented at the next conference. I think it is important in the unstructured life of a scientist to have these regular caesuras to account for ones achievements.In this article I would like to present, based on a special request by the editors, the abstracts of all my personal and co‐authored abstracts of ENC presentations from 1964 to 1992 as a token of appreciation for the importance the ENC's have played in my scientific life. They will be adorned with remarks on the context of their emergence.