Prof. Anil Kumar
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

In this talk I will describe the phenomenon of NMR right from its discovery in 1946, to its practice during 50’s and 60’s as CW (Continuous Wave) NMR (the past) to parallel processing using Fourier Transform NMR (the present). The exciting discovery of one-, two- and multi- dimensional Fourier Transform NMR, resulting in the 3-dimensional structures of proteins and other bio-molecules, when they are rapidly tumbling in solution state by NMR. I will also highlight the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), a significant contribution of 20^th century science to humanity, which took NMR from science laboratories to hospitals and revolutionized the practice of Radiology. Another exciting development that has taken place during past dozen years is the application of NMR to Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Processing (QIP). This will also be highlighted. The future promises to take NMR to miniaturization, both as low field NMR as well as pocket size MRI, with unpredictable developments in QIP.