The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a technique that detects the chemical environment of atomic nuclei by the absorption of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation when in the presence ...

Solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the classical NMR spectroscopy approach used for molecular structure determination, where the experimental sample is studied while in ...