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Nuclear magnetic resonance Fourier transform spectroscopy

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The development and current status of Fourier transform spectroscopy is described.

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Nobel Lecture given on December 9, 1991 by Professor R. Ernst and published in Les Prix Nobel 1991, printed in Sweden by Norstedts Tryckeri, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992, republished here with the permission of the Nobel Foundation, the copyright holder.

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Ernst, R.R. Nuclear magnetic resonance Fourier transform spectroscopy. Biosci Rep 12, 143–187 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01121787

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