> In addition to his efforts at Xerox, Pake was known for the work he > did while earning his doctorate at Harvard University in the 1980s. > His doctoral thesis was on a phenomenon involving the interaction of > two closely spaced nuclear magnets--a theory that later became known > as "Pake doublets." That work in magnetics helped later researchers > to develop magnetic resonance imaging--a widespread technique for > medical diagnosis. Prior to joining Xerox, Pake served as Provost of > Washington University in St. Louis, Miss.
I too doubt the "80s" - nuclear quadropole magnetoresonance was a well-known effect during my Sixth Form years at school in 1967/8 - I tried to build a spectrometer exploiting the effect from some instructions in Wireless World, in those days a very technical and well-researched publication. We do indeed owe PARC a great deal. It's sad how many "newbies" these days think that GUIs were invented by the Windows developers. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
