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I wish to describe how I arrived at the theme of this Symposium, viz., Current Status and Future Directions of NMR as a Structural Tool. This was an outgrowth of my own interpretation of various events that impacted on the evolution of high resolution NMR spectroscopy during the last 35 years or so. Many a time I was quite intrigued, if not fascinated, by how major advances in a scientific field occur when seemingly unrelated ideas and experimental technologies converge at a propitious time. The timing seems to be crucial. There are times when good ideas do not come to fruition. Sometimes a productive confluence of ideas and experimental methods occurs in a somewhat predictable fashion. Some other times serendipity brings about a totally unforeseen change, which then takes us in a inevitable and seemingly irreversible new direction. NMR has gone through all these types of phases during the last 35 years. In order to illustrate this point, I need to take you through a little bit of history.
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Rao, B.D.N. (1996). The Theme of the Symposium. In: Rao, B.D.N., Kemple, M.D. (eds) NMR as a Structural Tool for Macromolecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0387-9_1
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