Forty years of Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Emsley, J.W. and Feeney, J. (2007) Forty years of Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 50 (4), 179-198. (doi:10.1016/j.pnmrs.2007.01.002).

Abstract

This issue completes the 50th volume of Progress in NMR Spectroscopy, edited since its initiation 40 years ago by Jim Emsley, Jim Feeney and Les Sutcliffe (Fig. 1). The journal was founded in 1966 shortly after the publication of their comprehensive (at the time) NMR text-book [1]. This was written when the authors were at Liverpool University during a period when NMR was expanding at an astonishing rate. After its publication it was realised that it would be virtually impossible for such a comprehensive text to be kept up-to-date by simply publishing further editions. For this reason Les Sutcliffe approached our publisher with the proposal to set up a review series based on invited articles from carefully chosen NMR experts to provide updated coverage of selected areas across a broad front of the subject. His proposal was readily accepted and Progress in NMR Spectroscopy was born. The journal has continued to grow and flourish initially with Pergamon Press and latterly (since 1991) with Elsevier. We encourage our selected authors to write thorough, detailed and authoritative review articles that will be seen by the NMR community as being the primary source for learning about a topic. The extent to which this has been successful can be judged by an examination of the contents of the first 50 volumes given in Appendix A. The electronic versions of any of these articles can be accessed via Science Direct. From the diversity of the review titles in Appendix A it can be seen that our aim to cover all aspects of NMR and its wide application in chemistry, biology and medicine is being met.

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