Raymond Freeman FRS was a British chemist and professor at Jesus College, Cambridge who made important contributions to NMR spectroscopy.
13 Facts About Ray Freeman
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In 1973 Ray Freeman returned to Oxford as University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College, and started his own research group focused on high-resolution NMR methodology.
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Ray Freeman received the degree of Doctor of Science in 1975 and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.
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Ray Freeman acknowledged that part of this work was triggered by the seminal suggestion of Jean Jeener at a meeting in Brussels.
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In 1987 Ray Freeman moved to the University of Cambridge to take up the Plummer chair of magnetic resonance, and was elected a Fellow of Jesus College.
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Ray Freeman took statutory retirement in 1999, but continued his research with a long-time colleague Eriks Kupce, and produced his third book, "NMR in Chemistry and Medicine", published in 2003, and later translated into Russian.
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Ray Freeman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979, his nomination reads:.
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Dr Ray Freeman has been particularly concerned with the development of High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance since 1956.
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Ray Freeman was responsible for the exploitation of double and triple resonance techniques for the analysis of high resolution NMR spectra and for the determination of relative signs of spin coupling constants in proton spectra.
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Ray Freeman showed how C-13 and other weak resonances could be observed indirectly by double resonance methods and demonstrated the use of double quantum transitions for the assignment of NMR spectra.
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Ray Freeman then published a series of elegant papers on spin-spin and spin-lattice relaxation in high resolution spectra, demonstrated some of the earliest uses of Fourier transform spectroscopy, and pioneered the methods of measuring spin-lattice relaxation times of C-13 spectra and their use for structural purposes.
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Dr Ray Freeman's work is characterised by novelty and ingenuity expressed with economy and style.
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In 1958 Ray Freeman married Anne-Marie Perinet-Marquet.