Most unfortunate acronym EVER
Oct. 21st, 2002 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaFrom http://www.rvm.gatech.edu/cases/pines-case.html:
His work with Waugh led to the development of Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy (PENIS), a technique that allowed high-resolution spectroscopy of dilute spins that occur, for example, in the study of impurities in solids.
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The PENIS technique also reached commercial applications...
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine if this guy was crazy, if he was trying to over compensate, or what?
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Future article in Pop Sci
Date: 2002-10-21 07:33 am (UTC)Modifications and upgrades have given new life to this system. The support structure has been reinforced and new power supplies installed to increase operating time and duty cycle. Also, older components have been replaced with newer gear, making the machine somewhat larger and heavier, but also more reliable and sensitive.
(Do not taunt happy fun wolf!) :)
The real question is...
Date: 2002-10-27 09:48 pm (UTC)I don't believe your story that it was "Nuclear Induction". ;)