Sir Rex Richards obituary
by Georgina Ferry from on (#4M570)
Distinguished chemist who helped to pioneer nuclear magnetic resonance - a new method of analysis
Rex Richards, who has died aged 96, was a scientist driven not only by a personal thirst for discovery but by the satisfaction of creating conditions in which others could flourish.
He was practical and inventive, but having helped to pioneer the application of a new method of analysis - nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR - to chemistry, biology and medicine, he devoted most of his energies to engineering the kinds of collaboration that would drive the subject forward.
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