Martin Everett Packard
Martin Everett Packard (born March 10, 1921 in Eugene (Oregon) ) is an American physicist.
Packard studied physics at Oregon State University in Corvallis with a bachelor's degree in 1942. He then worked under Daniel Alpert at Westinghouse and briefly in the Manhattan Project at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley. Via Alpert he got in contact with Felix Bloch and moved to Stanford University , where he was involved in the first NMR experiments by Bloch and William Webster Hansen and received his doctorate in 1949. From 1951 he was in research at Varian Associates in Palo Alto. In 1953 he became Research Director of the Instruments Department, 1963 Vice President of the Analytical Instruments Department, 1969 Vice President (Corporation Vice President) of the Research Instruments Department, 1974 Assistant to the Chairman Edward Ginzton and 1984 Assistant to the Executive Vice President.
He made significant advances in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). In 1946 he was the first to record the NMR signals of protons in water and the first to record the NMR spectrum of an organic molecule. NMR later became a very important tool in organic chemistry.
He was Chairman of Opportunity Capital Corporation in San Francisco and Vega Biotechnologies in Tucson. From 1973 he headed the Addiction Research Foundation in Palo Alto. He was chairman of the board of directors of Ibuki Corporation.
Web links
- Prabook
- Martin Packard Papers , Stanford University
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website for the Martin Packard Papers, Stanford University, see web links
- ↑ Derek Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 398
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Packard, Martin Everett |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eugene (Oregon) |