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E. K. Zavoisky

 

Justice is inseparable from truthfulness.

 

Max Planck, 1936.

 

 

 

     E.K. Zavoisky discovered the Magnetic Resonance process in 1944. He conducted his experiments for the electron at Kazan State University in the Russian Republic at the height of the second world war. Zavoisky published his seminal works in English in the leading Russian Physics journal of the period. However, he failed to be credited with the full impact of his discovery. He is often regarded as the Father of Electron Spin Resonance. It was him who first discovered that the RF field must be applied in a manner perpendicular to the static field in order to see the resonance phenomenon. He is important since he married the spin with the lattice, and for this reason, he is properly viewed as the Father of all of Magnetic Resonance. (A detailed essay will follow of Zavoisky's life and work in the future).