Ernest Lawrence a scrap of a paper napkin. While sitting in the library one evening in 1929, Lawrence glanced over a journal article by Rolf Widerøe, and was intrigued by one of the diagrams. This depicted a device that produced high-energy particles by means of a succession of small "pushes". The device depicted was laid out in a straight line using increasingly longer electrodes. At the time, physicists were beginning to explore the atomic nucleus. In 1919, the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford had fired alpha particles into nitrogen and had succeeded in knocking protons out of some of the nuclei. But
Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy content of nitrogen atoms (tetrazoles, triazines and their annelated analogs) . Insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer (INEPT) is a signal resolution enhancement method. Because N has a gyromagnetic ratio that is small in magnitude, the resolution is quite poor. A common pulse sequence which dramatically improves the resolution for N is INEPT. The INEPT is an elegant solution in most cases because it increases the Boltzmann polarization and lowers T values (thus scans are shorter). Additionally, INEPT can accommodate negative gyromagnetic ratios, whereas the common nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) cannot. Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance