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PRESIDENTYuri D. TsvetkovInstitute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, RussianAcademy of SciencesInstitutskaya St. 3, Novosibirsk 630090,Russian Federationphone: 7-3832-354120fax: 7-3832-352350e-mail: [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENTSAmericasRonald P. MasonNIH/NIEHS, Laboratory of Molecular BiophysicsPO Box 12233, Research Triangle Park,NC 27709, USAphone: 1-919-541-3910fax: 1-919-541-1043e-mail: [email protected]

Asia-PacificTakeji TakuiOsaka City University, Graduate School of ScienceSugimoto, Sumiyoshi-Ku,Osaka 558-8585, Japanphone: 81-6-6605-2605fax: 81-6-6605-2522e-mail: [email protected]

EuropeMarina BrustolonDepartment of Physical Chemistry,University of PadovaVia Loredan 2, Padova 35131, Italyphone: 39-49-8275680fax: 39-49-8275135e-mail: [email protected]

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The official publication of the International EPR (ESR)Society is supported by the Society, by corporate andother donors, the Zavoisky Physical-Technical Insti-tute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Rus-sian Federation, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Tech-nology, Zurich, Switzerland.

Please feel free to contact us with items (news, notices,technical notes, and comments) or ideas for the EPRnewsletter.

The EPR newsletter is published quarterly by the Inter-national EPR (ESR) Society and is available in elec-tronic and printed form to all members of the Society.The deadlines for submission of news for upcomingissues: Spring March, 31; Summer June, 30; Fall Sep-tember, 30; Winter December, 31.

Officers of the International EPR (ESR) Society

Fellows of the International EPR (ESR) Society

Anatole AbragamBrebis BleaneyJames R. BoltonAnders EhrenbergGeorge FeherGeorge FraenkelErwin HahnKarl Hausser (1919–2001)Noboru HirotaClyde A. Hutchison, Jr.James S. HydeDaniel Kivelson (1929–2003)Melvin P. Klein (1921–2000)

EDITORLaila V. Mosina

Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,

Kazan, Russian [email protected]

ASSOCIATE EDITORSGraham Timmins

College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico,Albuquerque, NM, USA

[email protected] Takui

Osaka City University, Osaka, [email protected]

Thomas PrisnerInstitute of Physical Chemistry, Frankfurt, Germany

[email protected]

TECHNICAL EDITORSergei M. Akhmin

Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,

Kazan, Russian [email protected]

FOUNDING EDITORR. Linn Belford

Illinois Research Center, University of Illinoisat Urbana, Urbana, IL, USA

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IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENTJohn R. PilbrowSchool of Physics and Materials Engineering,Monash UniversityPO Box 27, Victoria 3800, Australiaphone: 61-3-9905-3660fax: 61-3-9905-3637e-mail: [email protected]

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3 EditorialL. Mosina

4 Fellowship of the IES to Daniel KivelsonYu. D. Tsvetkov and S. A. Fairhurst

4 IES Awards 20034 IES General Meeting 20035 The New Team of the EPR newsletter

Editor (Laila V. Mosina)Associate Editors (Graham Timmins, Takeji Takui, Thomas Prisner)Technical Editor (Sergei M. Akhmin)

6 AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 to Kurt WüthrichZavoisky Award 2002 to Wolfgang LubitzBruker Prize 2003 to Wolfgang LubitzThe Frank H. Spedding Award to Lynn BoatnerThe Jeol Prize 2003 to Stefan Stoll

10 Another PassionPlaying PokerG. Feher

13 Anniversaries95th Birthday of Evgeny K. Zavoiskyan interview with his daughter, Nataliya E. Zavoiskaya65th Birthday of John Pilbrow60th Birthday of Dieter Schmalbein

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volume13 number1-2 2003The cover picture illustrates the re-search carried out in the group ofWolfgang Lubitz, the Zavoisky Awardee2002 and Bruker prize 2003 winner. Itshows a ‘surface plot’ of a 2-dimen-sional DONUT-HYSCORE (5-PulseESEEM) spectrum at X-band obtainedfrom a [NiFe] hydrogenase in its oxi-dized “ready” state (S = 1/2) contain-ing a NiIIIFeII center. Investigated was ahydrogenase single crystal from the sul-fate reducing bacterium Desulfovibriovulgaris Miyazaki F. The large g anisot-ropy allowed selection of one crystallo-graphic site of a specific paramagneticspecies termed Ni-B. As an inset, a con-served histidine residue of the proteinis shown that forms a hydrogen bondto a cysteine sulfur bridging the Ni andFe in the active site of the enzyme. TheHYSCORE data yield the nuclear qua-drupole and hyperfine couplings of theproximal 14N nucleus of the attachedhistidine and thus information aboutthe interaction between the metal cen-ter and surrounding amino acids thataffect the functional properties of theenzyme. (M. Brecht and W. Lubitz, un-published data.)

The cover picture has been preparedby Carlos Calle and Cinzia Finazzo,ETH Zurich.

16 EPR newsletter AnecdotesJohn Pilbrow Recalls the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford in the Early 1960’s

18 In MemoriamLev A. BlumenfeldE. Ruuge and A. TikhonovJohn K. GradyR. Morse and N. D. ChasteenDavid H. WhiffenK. A. McLauchlanDaniel Kivelsonprovided by Robert L. Scott

24 Computer CornerEasySpin: A Software Package for the Computation of EPR and ENDOR SpectraS. Stoll

27 Tips and TechniquesError Sources in Qualitative SpectroscopyM. Mazúr and M. Valko

28 Notices of Meetings30 Conference Reports

VIth Voevodsky Conference “Physics and Chemistry of Elementary Chemical Processes”24th Discussion Meeting “Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Interactions”Twelfth Annual Workshop “Modern Development of Magnetic Resonance”1st Annual Meeting of the Society of Electron Spin Science and TechnologyEU-Summer School “Modern EPR Spectroscopy – Methodology and Applications in Physics,Chemistry and Biology”

33 For Your PerusalCollected by Arthur Schweiger

36 New Books and JournalsSpin Chemistry in Japana special issue of Applied Magnetic Resonance edited by Seigo Yamauchi and Masaharu Okazaki EPR of Free Radicals in Solids. Trends in Methods and Applicationsedited by Anders Lund and Masaru ShiotaniDiscount subscription rate (Applied Magnetic Resonance) for IES members

38 Positions Available & Wanted40 Equipment & Supplies Exchangeiii Reader’s Corner

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Dear colleagues,This is my first editorial and it is inevitable that I am a bit

nervous. When John Pilbrow asked me if I could considerthe possibility of becoming the Editor of the EPR newslet-ter, my first uncontrollable reaction was to say: oh, this is agreat honor and a great responsibility, I am flattered andhappy that you thought of my candidature, but I doubt Iwould be able to manage this. However, the good thingabout first uncontrollable reactions is that they do not lastlong, and then second thoughts come into play. And mysecond thought was that if the editorial office has to bemoved from Urbana, it is Kazan where the EPR newsletterbelongs to rightfully. Kazan, the Motherland of electronparamagnetic resonance, the 998-year old city on the banksof the Volga river where East and West meet. Thus, I haveaccepted this proposal and Yuri Tsvetkov, President of theIES, nominated me as the Editor of the EPR newsletter.

Being a member of the IES, I received the newsletterduring all these years and read it from the beginning to theend and I always found something interesting or instruc-tive. In our everyday life we have plenty of sources of infor-mation. The local newspapers give us the feeling of belong-ing to the community of our neighbors. All-country news-papers make us feel that we are citizens of a country and thenews worldwide gives us the feeling that we belong to hu-manity. We live in different countries and use differentEPR techniques to study a wide variety of problems and weattend different conferences on magnetic resonance but weare all members of one and the same International EPR(ESR) Society. We (hopefully) regularly pay our dues butthis is not what gives us the feeling that we belong to thesame community. It is the EPR newsletter that unites us andgives us the feeling that we are of the same blood, if I maysay so.

This is how I understand the place and role of this news-letter in the life of the EPR community. Maybe my beingfrom a country which recently had lived through dramaticchanges makes me less of a revolutionary concerning thechanges to be made in the newsletter by the new team. TheBelford team did a brilliant job with this newsletter andover the years the lists of contents cover various aspects ofEPR. What I would like to add is a human touch to sci-ence. To this end, we introduce a new column “AnotherPassion”. I have to confess it is my personal curiosity. Tal-ented people are usually talented in many things. This col-umn is about people who achieved success in EPR but alsohave a passion for something absolutely different. By realiz-ing this passion they have achieved success as well. I amhappy to start this column with a contribution from GeorgeFeher. We have several firm commitments for this columnand I hope the curiosity about people to be featured therewill keep you in a good waiting-for-the-next-issue mode.In the column “For Your Perusal” Arthur Schweiger kindlyserves as your personal guide in the abundance of EPR andEPR-related literature starting from the year of 2000. 2002marked the 95th anniversary of E. K. Zavoisky, the manwho made this fascinating discovery of EPR. In this issueyou will find an interview with his daughter, NataliyaEvgen’evna Zavoiskaya, who tells us some personal detailsabout her father. And, finally, to have a feedback from ourreadership, we introduce the column “The Reader’s Cor-ner”. You are welcome to give your input to anything whichis related to EPR or you have the feeling EPR spectrosco-pists could be interested in. Please note the new Web site ofthe newsletter: www.epr-newsletter.ethz.ch

You should certainly not miss the article by Richard Ernstabout Kurt Wüthrich’s 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ANobel Prize Winner telling about another Nobel Prize Win-ner gives it a special flavor. Interestingly, some of the firstpublications of Kurt Wüthrich were on EPR.

It is my pleasure to express my gratitude to GrahamTimmins, Takeji Takui and Thomas Prisner who agreed toserve as Associate Editors for Americas, Asia-Pacific andEurope, respectively. I owe special thanks to John Pilbrow.Meeting him in Novosibirsk in July 2002 and abundant e-mail correspondence contributed a lot to my understand-ing of aims and goals of the newsletter. He also kindlyagreed to edit a column about the pioneers of EPR and inthis issue you find his story about Oxford in the early1960’s. I really enjoyed my e-mail correspondence withGeorge Feher, Arthur Schweiger and Joan van der Waalswho gave me a wider and deeper outlook on my task onediting this newsletter. Linn Belford and Becky Gallivanwillingly and kindly helped me to get acquainted with theinner life of the EPR newsletter and provided me with guide-lines to ensure its functioning. The input from ShirleyFairhurst and Chris Felix could hardly be overestimated. Iam glad that my colleague from Applied Magnetic Reso-nance, Sergei Akhmin, serves as technical Editor of thenewsletter.

To make a long story short: it is you who produce thenews, we just present it in the EPR newsletter.

Laila Mosina

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† Professor Kivelson died shortly afterwards and anObituary is included in this issue

Fellowship of the IES toDaniel Kivelson†

molecule scattering; dynamic light scatter-ing; relaxation phenomena in liquids andviscoelastic fluids; supercooled liquids andglasses (attempted to develop an overalltheory of supercooled liquids and glasses);polyamorphism (multiple apparently amor-phous solid metastable phases).

During his distinguished career ProfessorKivelson has been honoured with manyawards: Including a Guggenheim Fellowship,1959; American Chemical Society Califor-nia Section Award, 1967; American Physi-cal Society: Fellow, 1976, Langmuir Awardin Chemical Physics 1999. UCLA: HarveyL. Eby “Art of Teaching” Award, 1970, andCollege of Letters and Science Faculty Award,1987.

The title of Fellow of the Society is con-ferred on those who have made truly out-standing contributions in EPR theory and/or practice. It is intended for particularlydistinguished scientists who are either re-tired or are close to retirement.

It is fitting that Professor Kivelson shouldbe honoured with Fellowship of the Inter-national EPR (ESR) Society.

Yu. D. Tsvetkov, President IESS. A. Fairhurst, Secretary IES

The International EPR/ESR Society is delighted to announce that ProfessorDaniel Kivelson (University of California at Los Angeles) is awarded aFellowship of the Society for his outstanding contribution to the develop-ment of theories and experiments on electron spin relaxation and line shapesin liquids.

IES General Meeting 2003The General Meeting of the International

EPR (ESR) Society was held during the 26thInternational EPR Symposium in Denverfrom July 27–31 2003. All IES members

and Symposium attendees were cordially in-vited to attend. Further details on this meet-ing will be given in a future issue of the EPRnewsletter.

IES Awards2003

Silver Medal for Chemistry

Michael K. BowmanWilliam R. Wiley Environmental

Molecular Science LaboratoryPacific Northwest National Laboratory

USA

Silver Medal for Physics/MaterialsScience

Edgar J. J. GroenenHuygens Laboratory

Leiden UniversityThe Netherlands

Silver Medal for Biology/Medicine

Michael DaviesThe Heart Research Institute

University of SydneyAustralia

Young Investigator Award

Stephan ZechDepartment of Chemistry

Columbia UniversityUSA

Full citations for all of the award winnerswill be given in a future issue of the

EPR newsletter.

Professor Kivelson’s name will always beassociated with the early development of ESRtheory of line shapes in solution. His inter-ests over his long and distinguished careerhave included: microwave spectroscopy; elec-tron spin resonance spectroscopy; nuclearmagnetic resonance; low-energy electron-

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ASSOCIATE EDITORS

TECHNICAL EDITORSergei Akhmin received his M.Sc. in Solid-State Physics from the Kazan State Univer-sity in 1977 and his Ph.D. in 1990 in Con-densed Matter Physics from the Kazan Physi-cal-Technical Institute. His scientific inter-ests were concentrated on EPR and ENDORstudies of ligand hyperfine and quadrupoleinteractions of admixture paramagnetic ionsin single crystals of alkali and alkali-earthmetal salts. Starting in 1990, he is involvedin the activity with publishing the journalApplied Magnetic Resonance to become itsDeputy Editor-in-Chief in 1996. SergeiAkhmin provides the prepress preparationof the journal according to the highest re-quirements of Springer, its publisher. In ad-dition, he participated in the prepress prepa-ration of various books: the monograph“Magnetic Isotope Effect in Radical Reac-tions” by Kev M. Salikhov (Springer), Pro-ceedings of the XXVII Congress AMPERE,the monograph “Evgeny KonstantinovichZavoisky: Materials to Biography”, the mono-graph “Semen Aleksandrovich Al’tshuler:Reminiscences”, to name a few.

Thomas Prisner studied physics at the Uni-versity of Heidelberg and graduated in 1984with the diploma thesis “ESE on Photo-excited Benzophenone Molecular Crystals”prepared in the group of Karl H. Hausser atthe Max-Planck Institute for medical re-search. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1988 fromthe University of Dortmund under the di-rection of Klaus P. Dinse, studying stochas-tic and coherent excitations in electronic spinsystems. Then he was a postdoctoral fellowin the group of Robert G. Griffin, Chemis-try Department at the Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, work-ing in high-field EPR and DNP at 140 GHzand 5 T. In the period 1991–1996 he workedon his habilitation thesis “Pulsed High-Fre-quency/High-Field EPR” at the Departmentof Physics, Free University Berlin, in thegroup of Klaus Möbius. Starting in 1997,Thomas Prisner is Full Professor at the In-stitute for Physical Chemistry at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2001,he became Director of the Institute for Physi-cal and Theoretical Chemistry.

His research interests are focused on thefollowing: EPR spectroscopy, method de-velopments (pulse EPR and multifrequencyEPR), kinetics and reaction dynamics of elec-tron-transfer reactions, photo- and electron-transfer reactions in proteins, conformationaldynamics of macromolecules, reaction dy-namics and structure of catalytical metal cen-ters, protein-ligand interactions, determina-tion of the structure of paramagnetic cen-ters in proteins, and DNP.

He prepares the EPR newsletter for print-ers and the pdf version for the web. Pleasecontact him if you have any questions con-cerning the form of submission of your ma-terials (text and illustrations).

AMERICAS

Graham Timmins(see vol. 12, no. 2 for the details on Dr. Timmins)

ASIA-PACIFIC

Takeji Takui(see vol. 12, no. 3 for the details on Prof. Takui)

EUROPE

Thomas Prisner

EDITOR

Laila V. Mosina(see vol. 12, no. 4 for the details on Dr. Mosina)

Sergei M. Akhmin


Since many years, insiders unanimously agreed KurtWüthrich deserves the great prize! His and his group’s in-novations have changed the field of molecular biology, andthe influence on the life sciences in general is immense.Before, it was impossible to study the inner workings andthe interactions of biomolecules in their natural media, inaqueous solution or within membranes. Today, we haveaccess to more secrets of nature than ever before, and ourunderstanding of life processes and our ability to cure dis-eases have grown immensely.

problems of great actuality. This is, in a nut shell, KurtWüthrich’s secret of success. – But it does not work ineverybody’s hands; one needs in addition his perseverance,his enthusiasm and drive, and his unbreakable belief in theultimate success of his approach.

The two above-mentioned ingredients for determiningbiomolecular structures were two novel two-dimensionalNMR techniques, COSY and NOESY, employing KurtWüthrich’s catchy terminology; COSY for tracing out in-ternuclear connectivity through chemical bonds and deter-

Nobel Prizein Chemistry 2002to Kurt WüthrichWith permission fromChimia 56 (2002) 712–713© Schweizerische Chemische GesellschaftISSN 0009–4293

It seems to be common to all great innovations andachievements: The underlying idea is very simple, almosttrivial; and over and over again colleagues ask themselves,why didn’t I have that seminal idea before? – Indeed, theseminal idea of Kurt Wüthrich is very simple, and intrigu-ing at the same time: Take two recently introduced newtechniques, give them well-sounding, attractive names, com-bine them in an innovative, ingenious manner so that oneplus one is infinitely more than two, and, finally, apply thenovel methodology to a large number of highly relevant

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mining dihedral bond angles, and NOESYfor measuring internuclear distances throughspace. And the combination of the two ex-periments led to his ingenious procedure forsequential assignment of the nuclear mag-netic resonances of backbone protons in pro-teins, and later also in nucleic acids. Theresults became the inputs of sophisticatedcomputer routines that, finally, calculate thebest fitting three-dimensional molecularstructures.

This procedure is today a standard tool,indispensable in any advanced molecular bi-ology laboratory. Kurt Wüthrich’s researchgroup solved during the past twenty yearsby NMR structural questions for many pro-teins that could not adequately be crystal-lized, a prerequisite for applying X-ray crys-tallography.

Both experiments, COSY and NOESY,were originally invented by Jean Jeener, abrilliant Belgium physicist, without yet con-ceiving their final names. In 1971, Jean Jeenerproposed the very first two-dimensional cor-relation experiment during a lecture at anAMPERE Summer School at Basko Polje inYugoslavia. This experiment for tracing outnuclear spin systems was subsequently imple-mented in the author’s laboratory in 1974and introduced 1977 into Kurt Wüthrich’sresearch group in the hope of possible bio-logical applications. The second experimentwas suggested in 1977 again by Jean Jeenerduring a private discussion at a Gordon con-ference in Wolfeboro at the beautiful lakeWinnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Its pur-pose was to trace out networks of nuclearrelaxation processes. Again, the author’s re-search group attempted its implementation,at first for elucidating chemical exchange net-works, which turned out to be easier thanexploring relaxation. But soon afterwards,1980, Anil Kumar discovered in a collabo-rative research project, carried out in Wüth-rich’s research group, that the experimentworks beautifully also for cross relaxation ifsufficiently large molecules are used as tar-gets.

At this moment, Kurt Wüthrich becamefully alert to the possible relevance of thetwo independent experiments. Their mar-riage was soon sealed for all time to come,and their naming ceremony happened at thesame time, actually to the author’s dismay,being afraid of insulting the purist minds ofscientists. But he soon converted also toWüthrich’s trendy nomenclature.

Although the author’s collaboration withKurt Wüthrich continued for several more

years, the seminal further development hap-pened almost entirely within Wüthrich’sgroup. As usual, the dry spell was long fromthe first conception of the idea to its trulyoperative implementation, and it took enor-mous efforts, both on the experimental spec-troscopic side as well as for conceiving pow-erful computer data processing routines. Andthe first protein structure, the one of pro-teinase inhibitor IIa from bull seminal plas-ma, obtained entirely by two-dimensionalNMR, could be published in 1985.

At this early stage in two-dimensional bio-logical NMR, there was hardly any seriouscompetition world-wide, and never anydoubt occurred that the priority for the se-quential assignment of proteins and theirstructure determination by NMR belongsto Wüthrich’s research group. But rather rap-idly, other research teams acquired the nec-essary knowledge, and serious competitionarouse. Nevertheless Wüthrich’s group hasalways kept the lead until today.

A large number of exceedingly beautifuland highly relevant biomolecular structureshave been determined in the mean time byhis research group. Just three outstandingexamples shall be mentioned: the three-di-mensional structure of the complex of thepeptide cyclosporin and the protein cyclo-philin, of importance for the suppression ofthe immune response during organ trans-plantations; the geometry of the DNA com-plex of the Antennapedia homeodomain, atranscription factor from the organism Dro-sophila menogaster; and the structures of themouse, bovine, and human prion proteins,of major significance for understanding theinherent processes involved in BSE and CJDdiseases.

Why has NMR been so successful inZürich? First of all, certainly because KurtWüthrich decided in 1969 to come to theETH, invited by the Professors Hans H.Günthard and Robert Schwyzer, after hissuccessful postdoctoral years in the UnitedStates where he became, for the first time,fascinated by the potential of NMR as ap-plied to biomolecules. – But in addition,NMR had already long before gained a verystrong footing in Zürich. The first researchin nuclear magnetic resonance was performedat the physics department of the Universityof Zürich. Hans Staub spent his postdoctoralyears at Stanford in the group of the Swisscitizen, Nobel Laureate, and ETH alumnusFelix Bloch. After being appointed in 1949as professor of physics, he established a verylively and successful group in NMR. Later,

in 1961, Professor W. H. Heini Gränicheremployed NMR at the physics departmentof ETH for seminal studies on ice. The firstpioneering introduction of NMR into chem-istry at Zürich happened in 1957 by Profes-sor Hans H. Günthard and especially byProfessor Hans Primas who designed inno-vative high-resolution NMR instrumenta-tion. This formed the major germ for thefuture Nobel successes at ETH Zürich, andalso for the commercialization of NMRthrough the company Trüb-Täuber, whichled to the later foundation of the interna-tionally leading company Spectrospin, knowntoday under the name Bruker BioSpin.

Often, serendipity is made responsible forscientific success, but we know at least asmany examples where from the beginning aclearly defined goal was pursued withoutcompromise. Wüthrich’s success undoubt-edly belongs to this second category. Heknew his goal, the determination of biomo-lecular structures, already very early and wassystematically looking for suitable tools, en-abling him to attain the set goal. – Obvi-ously, each scientist also requires luck in hiscareer. And Wüthrich’s luck was that theproper tools just became available when heneeded them. But it is to his merit that herealized their suitability and improved themto their perfection.

Wüthrich‘s achievements are an excellentexample for ‘oriented basic research’, researchthat is of a fundamental nature and never-theless has clear set practical goals. Wüthrichwas never caught within a detached ivorytower. His type of research can most easilybe justified towards the funding agencies andtowards the general public. It is also the kindof research that immediately fascinates youngadventurous scientists because it is interest-ing, challenging, and useful, at the same time.It is not astonishing that numerous renownedscientists started their successful careerswithin Wüthrich’s group.

Let us hope that Wüthrich’s example iscontagious for the entire scientific commu-nity, with the effect that university researchcontinues to contribute significantly to solv-ing problems of societal importance.

We would like to congratulate our col-league Kurt Wüthrich to his Nobel Prize inChemistry.

Richard R. ErnstLaboratorium für Physikalische Chemie

ETH Hönggerberg HCICH-8093 Zürich


The 2002 Zavoisky Award in Electron Para-magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy wasawarded to Professor Wolfgang Lubitz, Ger-many in a ceremony marking his outstand-ing contribution to multifrequency EPRspectroscopy in bacterial and plant photo-synthesis.

The ceremony was preceded by the TwelfthAnnual Workshop: “Modern Developmentof Magnetic Resonance”, Kazan, 2–4 Octo-ber 2002.

In the afternoon of October 2, a receptionof Professor W. Lubitz by the Prime-Minis-ter of the Republic of Tatarstan R. N.Minnikhanov took place.

The Zavoisky Award was presented Octo-ber 4, 2002 in Kazan, the capital city of theRepublic of Tatarstan. It was there that aca-demician E. K. Zavoisky discovered EPR in1944. The Zavoisky Award consists of a Di-ploma, a Medal and one thousand US dol-lars.

The Zavoisky Award was established bythe Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute ofthe Russian Academy of Sciences with sup-port from the Kazan State University, theSpringer-Verlag Publishing House, the Re-public of Tatarstan, the Tatarstan Academyof Sciences, the AMPERE Society and theInternational EPR (ESR) Society.

The Award Selection Committee consistedof well-known experts in EPR: Professors B.Bleaney (Oxford), G. Feher (La Jolla), K.Möbius (Berlin), A. Schweiger (Zurich), Yu.D. Tsvetkov (Novosibirsk), and the Chair-man K. M. Salikhov (Kazan). The selectionof the Awardee was made after consultationswith the Advisory Award Committee whichcomprises: C. A. Hutchison Jr. (Chicago),and Yu. N. Molin (Novosibirsk).

Previous winners of the Zavoisky Awardwere: W. B. Mims (1991), B. Bleaney (1992),A. Schweiger (1993), J. R. Norris, Ya. S.Lebedev and K. Möbius (1994), J. S. Hyde(1995), G. Feher (1996), K. A. Valiev (1997),J. H. Freed (1998), J. H. van der Waals(1999), H. M. McConnell and Bruker Ana-lytik GmbH (2000), and K. A. McLauchlan(2001).

The selection of Professor Wolfgang Lubitzwas made from many nominations solicited

Zavoisky Award 2002to Wolfgang Lubitz

Bruker Prize 2003to Wolfgang Lubitz

from international experts in EPR.The Award Ceremony starting in

the afternoon of October 4 was at-tended by over 200 people, amongthem were the scientists who hadparticipated in the preceding Work-shop.

The ceremony was chaired byProfessor K. M. Salikhov. He, as theChairman of the Award Commit-tee, announced the decision of theZavoisky Award Committee. Thepresentation was made by the De-puty Prime-Minister of the Repub-lic of Tatarstan Z. R. Valeeva. Sheread the letter of congratulationsfrom M. Sh. Shaimiev, President of the Re-public of Tatarstan. The Rector of the KazanState University, Professor M. Kh. Salakhov,the Chairman of the Presidium of the KazanScientific Center of the Russian Academy ofSciences, Professor A. I. Konovalov, and thePrincipal Scientific Secretary of the TatarstanAcademy of Sciences, Professor I. B. Khai-bullin warmly congratulated the laureate.Letters of congratulations from Professor H.W. Spiess, President of the AMPERE Soci-ety, Professor J. R. Pilbrow, President of theInternational EPR (ESR) Society, and Pro-fessor M. Mehring, President of ISMAR,were handed to Professor Wolfgang Lubitz.

Professor Lubitz gave his Zavoisky Awardlecture in which he discussed problems of

multifrequency EPR spectroscopy in photo-synthesis. A concert by a string quartet pre-ceded and followed the ceremony. After ameeting with journalists, the guests visitedthe museum of history of the Kazan StateUniversity. The event was concluded with aBanquet in honor of Professor W. Lubitzand his outstanding contributions to EPR.During their stay in Kazan the laureate andhis spouse visited the places of historical andcultural interest in Kazan, and picturesquesites in the town Elabuga.

The Organizing Committee owes specialthanks to the Ministry of Industry, Scienceand Technology of the Russian Federation,the Russian Fund for Basic Research and theNIOKR Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Each year the EPR Group of the Royal Soci-ety of Chemistry awards a prize in recogni-tion of outstanding service to EPR. The prize,sponsored by Bruker, was this year awardedto Professor Wolfgang Lubitz of the Max

Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry,Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. His BrukerLecture “Signals from the Reaction Centre”on applications of EPR in photosynthesisheld the audience in rapt attention.


Jeol U.K. have generously agreed to sponsora prize for the best oral presentation by ayoung scientist at the conference.

The competition is restricted to 2nd and3rd year Ph.D. students and postdoctoralfellows in their 1st year of research. Threestudents are selected by the scientific com-mittee based on a submitted abstract. Eachof the three students de-livers a short oral pre-

Lynn Boatner, a corporate fellow at the De-partment of Energy’s Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory, has earned a prestigious awardfor his research on the fundamental proper-ties and applications of rare earth phosphatesand other rare earth materials.

The Frank H. Spedding Award was pre-sented to Boatner during the Rare EarthResearch Conference in Davis, California.It marks the 10th time the award has beenpresented in recognition of excellence andachievement in research centered on the sci-ence and technology of the rare earths.

Rare earth elements on the periodic tableinclude cerium, gadolinium and ytterbiumand lie between lanthanum and lutetium.Boatner’s research in this area began in 1964,

The Frank H. SpeddingAward to Lynn Boatner

The Jeol Prize 2003to Stefan Stoll

initially focusing on fundamental spectro-scopic investigations of rare earth electronicproperties. He has authored or co-authoredmore than 440 publications, and has beenawarded 13 patents, and has earned threeR&D 100 awards. Boatner is a fellow of theAmerican Physical Society, the American Ce-ramic Society, the American Association forthe Advancement of Science, the AmericanSociety of Metals International and the In-stitute of Materials of the United Kingdom.He is also the review editor of the Journal ofMaterials Research.

In 2001, Boatner was presented the JessieW. Beams Award for excellence in researchby the Southeastern Section of the Ameri-can Physical Society.

Awards

sentation of 20 minutes. The student givingthe best overall presentation receives an in-scribed medal.

Stephan Stoll received his Jeol Prize at the36th Annual International Meeting: Ad-vanced Techniques and Applications of EPR,University of Manchester, of the ESR Groupof the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Boatner earned bachelor’s and master’s de-grees in physics from Texas Tech Universityand received a doctorate in physics and math-ematics from Vanderbilt University.


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L ast fall (2002), just as I was getting ready to take offfor Las Vegas to participate in a poker tournament, I re-ceived an e-mail from Laila Mosina, the new editor of EPRnewsletter, asking me to write about poker for her newcolumn “Another Passion”. On the plane I mulled over thequestion of whether to accept such an assignment. I wasreluctant because poker playing represents a rather privatepart of my life and, in addition, it is not a universallycondoned activity. I postponed a decision. In one of Laila’se-mails she argued that my poker playing will reveal that I

which was organized by Bernd Matthias of superconduc-tivity fame. I played with the group until I left in 1960 tojoin the fledgling new campus of the University of Califor-nia in La Jolla. Here, again with Bernd Matthias, we quicklyestablished a group of poker players that meets to this daytwice a month. In addition, I participate 2 or 3 times a yearin poker tournaments in Las Vegas and Los Angeles and wehave also organized many poker games at scientific meet-ings. So it is fair to say that poker has been running on aparallel track (albeit, side track, to be sure) with my ~50year long scientific career and, who knows, – it may evenoutrun it.

I mentioned Bernd Matthias twice in the above para-graph. I have fond memories of Bernd, who unfortunatelypassed away over 20 years ago. Once in the 1960’s Bernd,Walter Kohn (the developer of density function theory,DFT, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1998) and Iwere flying from New York to Los Angeles. Walter wassitting between us and Bernd and I started to play pokerover Walter’s seat. As Walter became more and more irri-tated, we suggested that he change seats. Walter refused;after all we were given specific assigned seats by the airline.As this incident shows, poker does not only bring out thecharacter of the players but also, occasionally, of the on-lookers.

G. Feher, third place winner in America’s Cup National PokerChampionship. Las Vegas, 1992.

PlayingPokerG. Feher

PassionAnother

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

am “human” and not, I suppose, a research machine. Wasthis a poker play to make me write the article? Actually,there are similarities between research and poker. In re-search, one endeavors to wrest the secrets of Nature; inpoker, the secrets of your fellow players. There are, of course,basic differences: deception and bluffing, which are essen-tial ingredients in poker, play no part in research. Furtherentreaties from Laila made me finally accept the task.

Poker started for me in the early 1950’s when I was agraduate student in physics at the University of Californiain Berkeley. During our long experimental runs at night, aswe were waiting for our set-ups to cool down to cryogenictemperatures, my fellow graduate students Clarence Kooiand Ray Hoskins introduced me to the game of poker. Itook to it immediately and became quite adept at it, somuch so, that after a while they refused to play for moneywith me. When I joined Bell Labs in 1954, I was delightedto find out that there was a monthly poker game going on,


Why do I, and many other people, findpoker so exciting? I find it difficult to ana-lyze this question in detail but what I can dois describe my feelings. When I take a seat ata poker table, there is a tingling sensation, afeeling of anticipation, the thrill of takingrisks, of possible surprises. It’s a lot like I feltin my youth, standing on the starting blockin a swim-meet, except that in poker, oncethe game is going, the challenges are muchmore multidimensional than in swimming.It’s more like skiing down a treacherous slopewhere the terrain needs to be constantly ne-gotiated. The terrain at the poker table arethe cards you are dealt and the players atyour table; the negotiations are the tacticsand strategies you devise as a result of theodds you calculate for your hand and yourreading of the hands of the other players.And at the end of the hand, there is theexhilaration of having done well, of havingdone your very best, even if you didn’t win.Ultimately, poker is a lot like the game oflife: You are dealt a set of cards about whichyou have no say (e.g. inherited traits, tal-ents, imposed external situations) and theaim is to strategize and optimize what youcan do with your hand so that, in the end,you feel that you have played to the verybest of your ability.

Will we ever be able to design a computerthat can effectively play poker? I don’t thinkso. It seems to me impossible to programthe reactions and psychology of the indi-vidual players, the very ingredients that makepoker for me exciting. In contrast I find chesswhose cold logic can be programmed into acomputer to be interesting but leaving mecold.

From the above remarks you can gatherthat, contrary to common belief, poker isnot a gambler’s game (like roulette, craps,baccarat, etc.); nor is it truly a card game inthe sense that the cards are not the mostimportant part of it. It is foremost a game ofpsychology and keen observation of youropponents’ reactions and body language.How strong is his hand? Is he bluffing ornot? These are the important questions. Bybody language I mean the so-called “tells”,the little mannerisms – tics, twitches, fid-dling with ones chips, cards, fingers, rings,etc. Since we are taught from childhood thatdeception is a bad thing, some players covertheir mouths or lower their voice when theybluff. Secondly, you have to know, of course,the statistical odds of your own hand, prop-erly weighted by the size of the pot. Thispart of the game is the easiest, especially for

the analytically minded. But just knowingthe odds will not make you a consistent win-ner.

What role does luck play in the outcomeof the game? Luck, good or bad, is impor-tant only in the short run (which can takeoccasionally an excruciating long period ofseveral hours). You can view periods of badand good luck as positive and negative noisespikes which over long periods of time aver-age to zero, analogous to the averaging ofnoisy traces of your EPR spectrum. Thismeans that luck does not enter the picture ifyou have enough capital to withstand thenegative peaks. In a tournament however,you buy in with a finite amount of moneythat cannot be replenished during the game.Consequently, a long negative fluctuationcan wipe you out and in fact one often seeschampions wiped out early in the tourna-ment. Thus, luck plays a far greater role intournaments than in regular games. By play-ing more conservatively, one can reduce theamplitudes of the peaks thereby reducingthe probability of being wiped out. An addi-tional difference between tournaments andnon-tournament play is the mental staminarequired to withstand the pressure over themany hours of a tournament.

Poker is probably the only card game thatcannot be played without a stake, (i.e.money) since the obvious goal of the gameis to get as much money from your oppo-nents as possible. Thus, a “friendly” pokergame is an oxymoron. However, a goodpoker player thinks of money in a ratherabstract way. He does not equate it withmoney spent in everyday life. If you equatethe size of a bet with the cost of your nextvacation, you are doomed. This was broughthome to me when I first started to play pokerin Las Vegas. At a table where thousands ofdollars passed hands, players returning fromdinner griped that the price of a steak hadgone up by two dollars. There clearly was adisconnect between the “real” money paidfor the steak and the “funny” money used toplay poker.

Let me now describe how poker tourna-ments are conducted. There are two to threebig poker tournaments (world champion-ships) played each year in Las Vegas in whichplayers from all over the world participate.The most famous is the Annual World Se-ries of Poker at Binion’s Horseshoe Casinoin Las Vegas. There are about a dozen differ-ent poker games played over roughly a two-week period. Some people play all games, Iplay only one, called “seven card stud HI-

LO split 8 or better”. A typical entry feeranges between $1000 and $2000 and thenumber of players varies between 100 and300. As an example, let’s say that 200 play-ers enter, each paying $2000, i.e. the totalamount collected is $400,000. This amount(minus a negligible percentage for the house)will be distributed among the winning play-ers. The winner receives roughly half of thepot (~$200,000), the runner-up approxi-mately a quarter and so on. Depending onthe number of players, 8–24 will receive somemoney.

The most exciting event of the AnnualWorld Series of Poker in which the stakeand number of participants are considerablyhigher than in the rest of the events, is agame called “no-limit hold them”. The en-try fee for this event is $10,000 and last year(2002) about 600 players participated. Thewinner was Robert Varkonyi, an M.I.T.graduate who walked away with $2,000,000.The best I ever placed in a tournament wasthird (see picture), good enough for them totry to interview me but I managed to es-cape. I imagined headlines in the San DiegoUnion: “U.C. Prof. Plays Poker in Las VegasShirking Teaching Duties”. Incidentally, mypoker winnings go into a research fundwhich, not being restricted by federal rules,has proved to be a great convenience overthe years.

It is interesting how some personal traitsshow up in poker more crassly than in ev-eryday life, giving insight into a person’s ac-tions and behavior patterns. Let me give youa couple of examples. On a few occasions, Iplayed poker with Edward Teller, “the fatherof the H-bomb”. His hawkish and far-rightleanings had been difficult for me to under-stand. After having played poker with him, Ibelieve that I have discovered the main driv-ing force of his stand. It is fear. He is themost fearful (and poor) poker player that Ihave ever encountered. His fear of commu-nism taking over the world was genuine andmotivated his actions. Another interestingplayer was John Bardeen, the two-time NobelPrize winner. No doubt, he knew the statis-tical probabilities cold, but was so self-con-tained that he had difficulties taking intoaccount the psychology of the other players.He lost most of the time. Wouldn’t it begreat to understand the psyche of SaddamHussein? I would love to play poker withhim.

How about the professional poker playersthat I encountered in Las Vegas? One mightimagine that they are an unemotional, cal-


culating logical bunch. Far from it. Many ofthem display bizarre characteristics that I hadnever expected, such as superstition. Theybelieve in winning and losing streaks, en-gendering their own self-fulfilling prophecy.Many also believe in the notion of a “hotseat” occupied by someone who had beenwinning for a while and clamor to occupy itwhen it is vacated, etc. Many of them squan-der their poker winnings by betting on theoutcome of sporting events, elections, horseraces (I can’t pass up this opportunity to giveyou my explanation of the origin of the phrase“horse sense”. Horses don’t bet on the out-come of human affairs.) The wife of the grandold man of poker, Johnny Moss, once con-fided that she surreptitiously skimmed off10% of his winnings and put it into a savingsaccount to enable them to live out their lifein comfort.

There is one disturbing incident that tookplace in Las Vegas a few years ago that keepsperiodically intruding on my mind. It showsthe tremendous absorption, concentrationand total neglect of the world outside thegame. Although these traits contribute tothe appeal and fascination with the game,they can as described below, on occasion,transcend the limit of decency. One of theplayers at a poker game in which I partici-pated collapsed and fell to the floor. It lookedlike a heart attack or a stroke. The dealercalled the floor manager but continued todeal the hand. Nobody stirred (except me

who left the table) and the game continueduninterrupted, except for the dealer’s shout-ing: “Two free seats on Table 23”. The poorman in the meantime moaned and turnedmore and more ashen. It took about 20 min-utes for the paramedics to arrive. By thattime, the man had stopped breathing andappeared dead. I was appalled, wrote a shortnote about it and went with it to the LasVegas Sun. It was never published, nor wasthe incident mentioned. When I complainedabout it to the locals, they just shrugged itoff with the remark: To have it publicizedwould be bad for business. It is, therefore,no wonder that I never met players in LasVegas with whom I could imagine becom-ing friends. They, on the other hand, prob-ably consider me an oddball and cannot un-derstand how I can return to the “hum-drum” life of academia.

Even if a friendly poker game is a contra-diction in terms, there is a big differencebetween the bimonthly home games I’vebeen playing for the past ~50 years and thegames in Las Vegas that I play a few times ayear. The home games with my colleaguesare congenial and comfortable and I enjoythem thoroughly. Las Vegas I enjoy twice:when I arrive and when I leave. The crass(albeit picturesque) characters one plays with,the unremitting tense concentration over along stretch of time, sometimes 24 hoursnon-stop, the lack of sleep add up to anexperience that is exciting but draining; and Passion

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The home game.G. Feher with hisgrandson Avi, inspiringa new generation.La Jolla, June 2003.

after several days, exhaustion and a desire toflee set in.

So why, in view of these derogatory re-marks about Las Vegas, do I continue to gothere? Simply because it is the one placewhere there is the challenge to measure myskills against the best in the game. I can sit ata poker table with players, whose names Ihave heard for years: Johnny Moss, AmarilloSlim, Doyle Bronson, Puggy Pearson, JackStrauss – the Pauli’s and Fermi’s of Poker. Ialso had the pleasure of playing with theactor Telly Savalas of “Kojak” fame who waspreparing for a movie depicting the legend-ary game at Binion’s Horseshoe in Las Ve-gas in 1949 between Nick The Greek andJohnny Moss. The game lasted five monthsand it is reputed that Nick the Greek losttwo million dollars. Unfortunately, Savalasdied before the film was finished.

I find that many of my academic colleaguesconsider my poker playing between un-un-derstandable and despicable. Do you? Well,that’s the risk I took in writing this piece.On the other hand, if you think you willfind poker exciting, or already do so, I wouldlike to take this opportunity to invite you tojoin our game in La Jolla. We will be happyto give you an introductory “free” lesson.


Nataliya Evgen’evna, 2002 was the year of your father’s95th anniversary. How is the memory about this greatcompatriot kept in Kazan, the birthplace of EPR?

Yes, the Motherland of EPR, Kazan, keeps the memoryabout my father alive and I bow low to everybody, whoremembers him and highly estimates his contributionsto science. The Kazan Physical-Technical Institute(KPhTI) is named after E. K. Zavoisky, and starting in1991, an annual International Zavoisky Award is cel-ebrated in Kazan. The present Award holders are out-standing scientists from USA, UK, Switzerland, Ger-many, Russia, and The Netherlands. In 1998 KPhTIpublished a brochure “Materials to the Biography: E. K.Zavoisky” (in Russian), written by my mother.

Kev M. Salikhov, director of the KPhTI and corre-sponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,is a co-editor of the book “Foundations of Modern EPR”.Professors Yurii V. Yablokov and Boris I. Kochelaev wrotethe book “The Beginning of Paramagnetic Resonance”,to mark the 50th jubilee of EPR.

At the Kazan State University, thanks to the efforts ofSemen A. Al’tshuler, corresponding member of the Rus-sian Academy of Sciences, a high relief of E. K. Zavoiskywas put, Zavoisky readings were organized, memorialboards were erected, and scholarships for students were

established. Moreover, in the Museum of History of theKazan State University there is a section dedicated to thelife and activity of my father and a museum-laboratorywith models of the first EPR instrumentation was opened.In the Lobachevsky Library there is a permanent exhibi-tion of manuscripts of my father and twelve albums de-voted to his scientific activity. The National Archive ofthe Republic of Tatarstan will soon get his archive.

The administration of the city of Kazan named one ofthe streets after E. K. Zavoisky.

E. K. Zavoisky made his discovery during the hard yearsof World War II. What did he tell about the terms hehad to work in?

My father discovered EPR in 1944. This is the officialdate. However, he observed NMR and EPR much ear-lier. He wrote this in his “Essay of the EPR History”. Hisfirst homemade setup was very simple. It contained noradar techniques, which is often mentioned in the West-ern scientific literature in connection with my father’sdiscovery. At that time in Kazan there was no such tech-nique at all.

Hardships of the wartime, inertness of our scientificauthorities and also the Iron Curtain – these were themain reasons that the former Soviet Union (Russia) lost adoubtless Nobel Prize.

Did your father ever regret that he stopped his EPRresearch?

My father never stopped his EPR activity. This is evi-denced by his works during the Moscow period and hisreports at EPR conferences. He met his friends and col-leagues, Semen A. Al’tshuler and Boris M. Kozyrev, veryoften and they discussed research carried out at the KazanState University and the Kazan Physical-Technical Insti-tute. Besides, he always read the literature in the field.Thus he was always well informed about the activitiesgoing on in EPR. At home in Moscow he had his ownEPR laboratory which he built himself.

What were the circumstances that made your father leaveKazan and move to Moscow?

There were several reasons for this. One of them was ofeveryday origin: we lived in a very moist house. Judgingby the windows of the ground floor, our house was informer time a storehouse. My mother fell heavily sickand my father asked the authorities to give us anotherflat but his request was rejected. The second reason was ascientific one. Apparently the talent of my father neededa vaster expanse. In the years after the war research inKazan was hardly financed at all. The equipment becameobsolete and new equipment was not available. Some-body recommended him to the academician Igor V.Kurchatov, and Igor’ Vasil’evich put him up in his labo-ratory (now the Russian Research Center “KurchatovInstitute”). And, finally, there was also a family reason:my father’s brother and both sisters at that time alreadymoved to Moscow. They were on very friendly terms andtheir families had suffered a lot at the time of terror: threemembers of the family were subject to repression, andonly one of them returned home alive. Three kids be-came orphans.

95th Birthdayof Evgeny K. Zavoisky

Nataliya Evgen’evna Zavoiskaya,daughter of E. K. Zavoisky, gavean interview to the EPR newsletteron the occasion of her father’s 95thbirthday.

Anniversaries


On March 28, 2003, John Pilbrow celebrated his 65th anniversary. It is difficult to findsomebody in the EPR community who is not well acquainted with this outstanding man.Linn Belford gave a nice introduction of John Pilbrow as Secretary of the IES in hisEditorial (EPR newsletter, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 2 (1997)). There is also a comprehensive entry onhis research activities in the EPR newsletter, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 6 (1999) on the occasion of hisBruker Award 1998. From 1998 to 2002 his photograph was often in the EPR newsletter reIES medal presentations he made first as Secretary and then as President of the IES.

We heartily congratulate John Pilbrow and wish him and his large family all the best. Inparticular, good health, as he is recovering successfully from some recent heart surgery. Weare looking forward to many more years of his enthusiastic activity for the benefit of theEPR community.

Was science the only passion of your fa-ther or did he have a hobby?

My father was betrothed to physics early.It was one of his most important raisond’etre. He was never disappointed aboutphysics. When life forced him to partici-pate in the creation of an atomic bomb,he wrote to my mother: “This specialtybecomes nasty”. But it was not physicsthat was nasty, it was what circumstancesand people made of it. As soon as pos-sible, he dropped the defense research andnever returned to this field.

He had, of course, a hobby: it was trav-eling by car. My father had a car and wetraveled a lot in Crimea, the Carpathianmountains, the Baltic Republics of theformer Soviet Union. We visited Suzdal,Vladimir, Tver, Novgorod, and Leningrad.My father always drove a car. Moreover,he collected scientific literature and hislibrary was rather large. He was also inter-ested in modern painting.

There is the saying: Behind every greatman there is a great woman. Please tell usabout your mother.

On November 11, 1932 my mother sub-mitted her documents to enter the KazanState University. E. K. Zavoisky, AssociateProfessor, registered these documents. Mymother told me that on this very day shefell in love with him. My mother was acharming girl, a slim blonde with big blueeyes. She was only eighteen when my par-ents married. My father was seven years

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older. My mother told me that she was soeager to go with him to the theater, tomovies, or to visit friends. But my fatherwas so much absorbed by his interestingwork that he could not find a spare minute.My parents always had an understanding.My mother took care of all daily chores,translated papers from English into Rus-sian for my father and discussed them withhim. It is my mother’s merit that she keptthe large archive of my father. When myfather fell heavily ill, my mother stoically

fought for his life. My mother is the au-thor of the brochure “Materials to the Bi-ography: E. K. Zavoisky”.

What were the main characteristics of E.K. Zavoisky?

Modesty, decency, adherence to principles,responsibility, tenderness, fidelity.

By the way, you might be interested tolearn that the surname Zavoisky is rathernew, it is only 200 years old. Our Vyatkaancestors had the surname Kurochkin. Theclan was very large and in the family ofthe father’s great-great-grandfather, a priestfrom the Rozhdestvenskoe village of theVyatka province, three sons had the samename Nikolai, which was common at thattime. In the seminary, in the beginning ofthe 19th century, they were given new sur-names: Zakharov, Rassvetov, and Zavoisky.Our ancestor was given the surname afterthe river Voya.

One more piece of history: in the Peterand Paul’s Cathedral in Kazan, in 1774,shortly before the Pugachev revolt, theseminarist Zakhar Stefanov Kurochkin,great-great-grandfather of my father, heart-ily prayed. And shortly before World WarII, E. K. Zavoisky installed in this cathe-dral the Foucault pendulum for the mu-seum of atheism. Jumps and grimaces ofhistory...

Evgeny K. Zavoisky (center) with his friendsand colleagues, Semen A. Al’tshuler (left) andBoris M. Kozyrev (right). Kazan, 1968.


Anniversaries

60th Birthdayof Dieter SchmalbeinOn 22th October 2002 Dieter Schmalbeinhas joined the club of the sixties. He is wellknown to the whole EPR community as thefather of various series of commercial EPRspectrometers: ER 200, ESP 300, EMX, andELEXSYS.

Dieter Schmalbein graduated from theTechnical University in Aachen in 1969 andfinished his PhD at the Ruhr University inBochum in 1972 with his thesis “Micro-wave Delay Lines as Detector for Electron-Multiple-Resonance”. Since 1973 he is work-ing at Bruker starting the development ofthe ENDOR and TRIPLE accessory. Be-sides technical and scientific skills his man-agement capabilities were evident and alreadyin 1976 he became the division leader forEPR. Since 1990 he is one of the managingdirectors of Bruker Analytische MesstechnikGmbH, today Bruker BioSpin GmbH. Heis an exceptional team leader of an extremely

creative EPR group including such wellknown scientists like the late Reinhold Biehl,Peter Höfer and Karoly Holczer. Togetherthey developed the first commercial PulsedEPR, Fourier-Transform EPR and PulsedENDOR spectrometers, as well as high-fieldspectrometers opening frontiers in EPR formany users. You may find Dieter Schmalbeinat almost any of the leading EPR confer-ences, often together with his charming wifeCornelia, looking for new ideas and newchallenges, as well as for new applications.He has initiated the Bruker EPR award andhas received for Bruker the Zavoisky Awardin 2000 in Kazan.

The EPR community is indebted to Di-eter Schmalbein for many outstanding de-velopments. We wish him health and goodluck to maintain his creative spirit for thenext years and are looking forward to hisnew developments.

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AnecdotesEPR newsletter

John Pilbrow Recallsthe Clarendon Laboratory inOxford in the Early 1960’s

Having been introduced to EPR spectroscopy in NewZealand for my Masters degree in Physics, I left for Oxfordin August 1961 to begin work on my DPhil [i.e. PhD] withthe intention of working in Superconductivity! In the eventI remained in EPR but that is another story.

Those of us beginning our graduate work were requiredto attend lecture courses by Brebis Bleaney [on EPR], WernerWolf [on magnetism] and by John Van Vleck from Harvard,who was Eastman Visiting Professor during 1961-2. VanVleck’s lectures based on his book The Theory of Electric andMagnetic Susceptibilities, were both memorable and enter-taining. He always came into the lecture hall with a copy of

his book and a stack of reprints of his papers about 40 cmhigh! In fact he spent a good deal of time searching throughthe stack of papers as he mostly seemed to lecture withoutnotes. Barely legible handwritten notes were sometimesprovided and I still treasure them today. What I recall par-ticularly was the sense of history he conveyed. After all hecontributed a major part of the history of the application ofquantum mechanics to magnetism and this indeed waswhat earned him a share of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Phys-ics. His work on paramagnetism of transition metal com-plexes and transition metal ions, which led to the primitiveform of crystal field theory was, and remains, very insight-ful even today in thinking about high and low spin transi-tion metal ions. We remain in his debt for his early contri-butions to spin-lattice relaxation and the Jahn-Teller Ef-fect. These impacted on much of the early EPR spectros-copy of transition metal ions.

I worked under Bill Hayes in Lab 041 in the TownsendBuilding, which had been Brebis Bleaney’s lab before hebecame Dr Lee’s Professor. The long tradition of the 041


Coffee Club tradition continued. Thus, in addition to members ofthe Hayes group and Michael Baker’s group from the next lab,another 10–15 others used to arrive every morning at about 10.30am. Brebis Bleaney always brought important visitors for coffee. Inmy first year [1961-2] a regular attendee was John Van Vleck.Beginning graduate students were rostered to go into town to buyfreshly ground coffee each week from a Turkish Coffee Merchant!When I first experienced a crowd of 20 or more in the lab eachmorning, many of whom continued their discussions until about11:30 am, I felt somewhat annoyed because it was impossible to getstarted on experiments until after they had all gone. However Iquickly realised that one of the reasons I had sought to go toOxford from the small world of New Zealand was to experience thecut-and-thrust of discussion about physics, about science and aboutmany other things. I soon learned that the experiments could wait!

Other notable memories from those days include the 10 lectureson EPR in Semiconductors by Anatole Abragam late in 1962. Therewe learned of the major contributions made by George Feher to thisfield which may surprise younger members of the EPR communitywho perhaps know only him through his work in photosynthesis.From the point of view of my general education I still value thelectures on Optical Properties of Solids by Roger Elliott [now SirRoger – who with Ken Stevens introduced operator equivalents], onSolid State Theory by Sir Rudolf Peierls based on his book QuantumTheory of Solids and on Group Theory by Melvin Lax [Bell Labs].

In 1965 I moved my family to Australia, to Monash University inMelbourne, and again considered changing fields to Superconduc-tivity but for several good reasons I found myself continuing inEPR – still to this day!

During 1969 it was a great privilege to have the opportunity tomeet up again with Professor Van Vleck following the IUPAC Con-gress in Sydney where he had taken part in a celebration of 50 yearsof Quantum Chemistry. At Monash he attended the InternationalSymposium on Magnetic Resonance where he gave a very memorableafter dinner speech laced with fascinating historical anecdotes [Mag-netic Resonance, Plenum Press 1970]. I knew that he had written abook on the Old Quantum Theory, Quantum Principles and LineSpectra, that was to have been published by Oxford University Pressin 1925 or 1926, but which subsequently appeared as an NBSMonograph. So I took the opportunity to talk with him about hisview as to why perhaps he, and some of his distinguished colleaguesin the US, had not independently stumbled upon Quantum Me-chanics. With his usual candour he replied ‘I have given this a greatdeal of thought, but we were in the wrong philosophical climate’!What he meant was that he, at least, believed one could patch upthe Old Quantum Theory. However Quantum Mechanics requireda totally new approach.

The Clarendon Lab contributed the name ‘paramagnetic reso-nance’, the ‘spin Hamiltonian’, ‘operator equivalents’ as well astheory accessible for experimentalists in the field of EPR. The early1960’s saw EPR give way to other areas of research at the ClarendonLaboratory, a period in which applications to chemistry and laterbiology began to dominate the field elsewhere. Michael Baker’sgroup continued the tradition and in more recent times did out-standing work on defects in diamond.. I personally owe much tomy Oxford experience, friendships made and science learned andpracticed.

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In Memoriam

Professor Lev A. Blumenfeld, one of the pio-neers of EPR applications to biology andchemistry, passed away on 3 September2002. He lived a bright and exceptionallyintellectual life and worked actively until hislast days.

Lev A. Blumenfeld was born on 23 No-vember 1921, in Moscow. In 1939 he be-came a student of the Faculty of Chemistryof M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State Univer-sity. His academic carrier was interrupted byWorld War II. In 1941 Lev Blumenfeld vol-unteered in the Red Army; he participatedin many battles of World War II and waswounded twice. His scientific carrier beganin 1944. In the hospitals, where brave lieu-tenant Blumenfeld recovered after severewounds, he began his work on the quantumchemical calculations of two-atom molecules(HF, HCl, HBr and HI). For the couragedisplayed during the War against fascism,Lev Blumenfeld was awarded a number ofmedals and orders.

In November 1945 Lev Blumenfeld wasdemobilized from the Army and continuedhis study in the Faculty of Chemistry of theMoscow University. The quantum chemicalcalculations carried out during the War laidthe basis of his diploma work. In 1946 hesuccessfully graduated from the Universityand then continued his research work in thefield of quantum chemistry in the KarpovPhysical-Chemical Institute. He receivedPh.D. degree in 1948 for the study of elec-tronic levels and optical properties of conju-

gated hydrocarbons. Soon after this work,Lev Blumenfeld turned to the study of physi-cal and chemical properties of hemoglobin(Central Institute of Advanced Medical Stud-ies, Moscow). Remarkably, as early as 1952–53, he predicted, independently of MaxPerutz, the occurrence of large-scale confor-mational changes in hemoglobin. Lev Blu-menfeld received D.Sci. degree from the In-stitute of Chemical Physics (1954, Moscow)for the study of hemoglobin structure andmechanisms of reversible association of oxy-gen with hemoglobin.

Lev Blumenfeld is well known as a pio-neer of EPR applications to the study ofbiological systems. In 1955–56, he was thefirst in Europe (together with his collabora-tor Alexander Kalmanson and indepen-dently of Barry Commoner and his col-leagues in USA) who observed EPR signalsfrom biological samples. Professor Blumen-feld successfully continued to investigatebiological and chemical systems by the EPRmethod together with his numerous pupilsin the Institute of Chemical Physics (Mos-cow) and in the Department of Biophysics,Faculty of Physics (Moscow State Univer-sity) for more than 45 years. In 1995 Pro-fessor Lev Blumenfeld was awarded the IESSilver medal in Biology/Medicine. In 2001he was awarded the Voevodsky Gold Medalof the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Lev Blumenfeld also significantly contrib-uted to the study of energy transduction inbiological systems. On the turn of his 60thand 70th birthdays he put forward new ideason the mechanisms of enzyme catalysis. LevBlumenfeld suggested that one should con-sider biopolymers as molecular machines,characterized by a few selected (“mechani-cal”) degrees of freedom. The “relaxationconcept” of enzyme catalysis was experimen-tally substantiated by Lev Blumenfeld andhis collaborators. Impressive experimentalsupport of Blumenfeld’s view on enzymes as

“molecular machines” has come from bio-physical laboratories from all over the world.For his works “Physical mechanisms of en-ergy transduction in biological membranes”Lev Blumenfeld was awarded the LomonosovPrize (Moscow State University).

Professor Blumenfeld was Head of theDepartment of Biophysics (Faculty of Phys-ics, Moscow State University) for almost 40years. About one thousand students havegraduated from this department that wasfounded by Lev Blumenfeld in 1959. Hehas personally guided more than 100 researchscholars (Ph.D. and D.Sci.). His studentsare working now in leading academic insti-tutions across the globe. Professor Blumen-feld was the author of 7 books and morethan 300 papers published in Russia andabroad.

Lev Blumenfeld was a generously giftedand highly intellectual person. He was notonly a brilliant scientist, but also a talentedpoet. All his life he wrote profound versesand poems, and he translated into Russianclassic poetry of German and English au-thors (H. Heine, R. Kipling, A. Swinburne,R. Browning, K. Dixon). He also publishedthe autobiographical novel “Two Lives”.

Lev Blumenfeld continued to work untilthe very last minutes of his life, in spite ofthe fact that he was suffering from severeheart disease. Only a few minutes before hislast breath he reviewed the final proof of hislast book, “Solvable and Unsolvable Prob-lems of Biological Physics”.

Enno RuugeAlexander Tikhonov

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Lev A. Blumenfeld(1921–2002)I lived my life. I’m not to judge,If it was good or bad.But my epoch didn’t manage to completely murderMy ego in me.(translated from L. A. Blumenfeld, “Selected Verses”, 2001)


John Kevin Grady, 42, of Somersworth, NewHampshire, USA, died January 12, 2002, atBrigham and Womens Hospital, Boston,Massachusetts, after a long struggle with leu-kemia. Born in Manchester, New Hamp-shire on January 25, 1960, he was the son ofthe late Thomas Francis Grady Jr. andJeannette (Charbonneau) Grady.

John earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chem-istry in 1983 and a Master’s degree in Bio-chemistry in 1998 both from the Universityof New Hampshire.

John started working for N. Dennis Chas-teen in July 1984 as a senior technician. For16 years, John was the backbone of theChasteen lab; he kept it running smoothlyand mentored and befriended the manygraduate and undergraduate students andpost-doctoral fellows who came to work andlearn there over the years. In his short life,John made significant contributions to ourknowledge of the proteins of iron metabo-lism, most recently developing an impor-tant CE method for assaying the subunitcomposition and integrity of ferritins. Johnemployed EPR and other physical methodsto characterize the iron binding and radical

generating properties of the transferrins andferritins. He published 15 articles, being thelead author on many of them, and was acontributor to the tips and techniques sec-tion of the EPR newsletter. In 2000, Johnassumed a senior staff position at the Centerto Advance Intermolecular Science (CAMIS)at University of New Hampshire, a centerdevoted to studies of interactions betweenbiological molecules and serving industryand academia. He only worked there a shortwhile before the leukemia returned and hewas again hospitalized.

John was a gifted chemist and a wonder-ful person of great integrity. The new EleXys500/560 EPR/ENDOR laboratory is dedi-cated to John. It will be known as the JohnK. Grady Electron Resonance Laboratory.There will be a dedication ceremony on Sep-tember 18, 2003.

On a personal note, when Reef Morseunderwent surgery for prostate cancer, Johnbegan a conversation with him about cancerand how he viewed life as a result of it. Johnwas always upbeat, humorous, supportive,and sympathetic. These conversations wereimportant contributions to providing a per-spective of cancer as a journey in life ratherthan a battle to win or lose. His remarkableinsight, frankness, and personal generositycontributed to all those who came in con-tact with him.

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David H. Whiffen FRS(1922–2002)It is with regret that we record the death ofDavid Whiffen at the age of 81. He was oneof the true pioneers in the application ofESR spectroscopy to chemical systems andhad a considerable influence on the devel-opment of both ESR and NMR. He wasdelighted when, after several years of retire-ment, I was able at the request of our Presi-dent, to inform him that he had been electeda Fellow of the Society and to award him his

certificate. Typically modest, he was bothsurprised and delighted.

David graduated from Oxford in 1943and stayed on until 1949 (with a period else-where) to pursue research in infra-red spec-troscopy with H. W. Thompson. It was atime when researchers were becoming awareof the whole electromagnetic spectrum andDavid began to explore the applications ofwartime RADAR equipment to the study of

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molecules, originally in bulk. His first forayinto this new field was in the area of dielec-tric loss phenomena at hitherto unexploredfrequencies, including work done at the BellTelephone Laboratories in Murray Hill. Re-turning to Oxford he demonstrated that afundamental source of loss originated inmolecular collisions and distortions.

In 1949 he became a Lecturer at Birming-ham University and initially returned to theuse of infra-red spectroscopy, largely in thecontext of structure determination with hissynthetic chemistry colleagues. His contactscaused him to become interested in poly-merisation, and he became aware that littledirect physical evidence existed for the freeradicals which were believed to occur in somepolymerisation processes. He therefore builtan early ESR spectrometer and had somesuccess studying irradiated powders. But thenUbersfeld and Erb published the first studythat demonstrated orientation dependenceof the spectra observed from a single crystalof glycine within the magnetic field of thespectrometer. David rapidly followed this upand became the leading expert on studyingsuch spectra and interpreting them. At thetime, before the availability of digital com-puters, this was far from trivial and Davidestablished analytical methods for diagonal-ising the matrices. A large number of similarstudies followed, especially when after 10years he moved to the National PhysicalLaboratory at the invitation of John Pople.Neil Atherton was one of his post-graduatestudents in Birmingham.

These were exciting times at the NPLwhich rapidly became the best equippedmagnetic resonance laboratory (both NMRand ESR) in Europe and which was largelystaffed by post-doctoral workers, most ofwhom had returned from the U.S. in an

attempt to reverse the “Brain Drain”. Onthe ESR side the early members includedJohn Morton, Tony Horsfield, Ray Cook,Roy Brandon and John Rowlands whilst RayFreeman, Ray Abraham, Tom Connor andKeith Mclauchlan were the NMR people.Yuri Tsvetkov, now our President, came asthe first Russian Exchange Visitor. David’sinterest in loss phenomena was continuedin collaboration with Graham Williams andBrian Read. Many who joined or visited theBasic Physics Division later became at leastas well known. The atmosphere was of con-tinuous discovery and innovation, with themost stimulating atmosphere I have ever ex-perienced.

Much of this stemmed from David him-self. He set unparalleled standards for qual-ity of results, reproducibility and depth ofinterpretation, and insisted on new experi-ments being tried continuously. Life for himwas a continual intellectual challenge, withevery aspect of any problem considered indepth. Lunchtimes with him were the re-verse of relaxing. With Ray Freeman he pub-lished most of the work that provided thefirst examples of double and triple resonancein NMR studies, and contributed to thewhole development of NMR spectrometers.In ESR he caused X- and Q-band spectrom-eters to be developed and soon extendedthem for very early ENDOR studies, againusing both double and triple resonance. Inthe nine year lifetime of the Basic PhysicsDivision at the NPL over 300 papers re-sulted at a time when most of the equip-ment was home-built and when we were allat the limits of the then understanding ofmagnetic resonance. David’s contribution atthis time cannot be over-exaggerated. Hewas personally original and he taught us allhow to interpret our results as thoroughly as

could be done. He was a fount of knowl-edge, but also he encouraged us to believethat we could do anything either in experi-ment or in theory. All of us who workedwith him are greatly in his debt.

Unfortunately political pressures eventu-ally decreed that basic research had no placein UK Government Laboratories and thislaboratory, which had competed with thebest in the world, ceased to exist. David there-upon accepted a Chair in Physical Chemis-try at Newcastle University and, althoughbecoming active now in new techniques ap-plied to gaseous microwave spectroscopy,never again achieved the heights he had en-joyed whilst at the NPL. Inevitably due tothe progress in science many of his achieve-ments seem less astonishing in retrospectsince once he had taught us to understandthem they became accepted. But at the timehe shared his pre-eminence with only a fewof his contemporaries. His long lasting con-tribution is what he taught those of us luckyenough to work with him and which wehave handed down in turn to our own stu-dents. It was a genuine privilege to have hadhim as a supervisor and friend.

It would be remiss not to mention thenon-scientist. David was a quintessentialfamily man with four sons and several grand-children whom he adored, and was deeplyreligious although not intrusively so. On re-tirement he had moved to a small village inSomerset and with his wife Jean entered fullyinto the community life, providing muchassistance to old people and charities. HisMemorial Service was held in the ancientchurch there, and it was endearing to expe-rience the obvious sense of loss of the villagecongregation, quite outside that of his fam-ily and scientific friends.

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Dr. Kivelson was a brilliant and charis-matic teacher. He was a research mentor tomany graduate students and post-doctoralfellows; he took particular pleasure in intro-ducing undergraduates to research. In 1967he was the recipient of the UCLA Harvey L.Eby “Art of Teaching Memorial Award” andhe recently was awarded a grant from theDreyfus Foundation in recognition of hiswork with undergraduates.

Daniel’s record of service was also excep-tional. In the department he served as chairof many committees and served as both un-dergraduate and graduate advisor. From1975–78 he was departmental chair. In 1979he was elected vice-chair of the LA Divisionof the Academic Senate and succeeded tothe chairmanship the following year. He ledmany university task forces and search com-mittees.

Dr. Kivelson was the recipient of manyawards and distinctions including Guggen-heim, Sloan and Fulbright Fellowships, theAmerican Chemical Society California Sec-tion Award, and the Herbert Newby McCoyAward. In 1987 he was the recipient of theCollege of Letters and Science Faculty Awardand in 1999 he was the winner of the Ameri-can Physical Society Langmuir Prize inChemical Physics.

Daniel is survived by his wife Margaret,his daughter Valerie and her husband Tim,

Daniel Kivelson(1929–2003)We are saddened to report that ProfessorDaniel Kivelson passed away on Wednes-day, January 22, 2003. Daniel was in manyways the ideal of a UCLA professor. He wasan original and deep scholar, a great teacherand a departmental and campus leader. And,above all else, he was an extraordinary friendand counselor to so many of us.

Dr. Kivelson was born in New York Cityin 1929. He came to UCLA in 1955 as anInstructor after completing his undergradu-ate and graduate studies at Harvard. His the-sis research in chemical physics, under thesupervision of E. Bright Wilson, was on theuse of microwave spectroscopy as a tool fordetermining molecular structure. At UCLAhe established a program in electron spinresonance. This early research had the hall-marks of his approach to science. He com-bined expertise in experimentation with fun-damental theoretical analysis. His treatmentof ESR relaxation remains one of the mosthighly cited papers in the field. Daniel madeimportant contributions to the theory ofmolecular relaxation in fluids throughout hiscareer and carried out complementary ex-perimental studies by light scattering, inwhich he was an early leader. For the pastseveral years he had focused on the study ofsupercooled liquids and glasses and broughtmajor new insights into this important andchallenging area.

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son Steven and his wife Pam, and five grand-children. A memorial service was held in theCalifornia Room of the UCLA Faculty Cen-ter from 4 to 7 pm on Friday, January 31.

In Daniel’s honor a special fund is beingestablished for undergraduate summer re-search fellowships. Checks should be writ-ten to the Regents of the University of Cali-fornia with a notation that it is for theKivelson Fund.

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EasySpin:a Software Package for the Computationof EPR and ENDOR Spectra

Stefan Stoll

During the last decade cheap and fast computers have be-come available. As a result, EPR spectroscopists can simu-late their spectra on their desktop computer and no longerhave to rely on large-scale computing facilities. This led tothe emergence of several general simulation programs.

One of the first to become widely used was SimFonia forWindows, written by Ralph T. Weber (Bruker BioSpin) inthe mid-1990s. Based on perturbation theory, it was notgenerally valid and its results had to be used with care. In2000, Bruker BioSpin substituted SimFonia with XSophe,a significantly enhanced simulation suite now running un-der Linux. The program is developed by Graeme Hanson’sgroup at the University of Queensland in collaborationwith Bruker BioSpin.

Other general programs include the little known buthighly useful DOS/Windows program SIM, developed byHøgni Weihe (University of Copenhagen), simpip (for-merly QPOW) by Mark J. Nilges (Illinois EPR ResearchCenter), and EPR-NMR, a long-standing project of JohnWeil (University of Saskatchewan) and Michael Mombour-quette (Queen’s University). Links to these programs andto other computational EPR software can be found on theinternet at www.esr.ethz.ch or in the ESR software database(ESDB) at epr.niehs.nih.gov/software.html.

EasySpinThe spectrum simulation software with the most extensivefunctionality so far is EasySpin, developed in the EPR groupat ETH Zurich (Switzerland). The software package grewout of an attempt to integrate theoretical computations,spectral simulations and data analysis on a single user plat-form. EasySpin consists of a collection of functions thatadd EPR analysis and spectral simulation functionality tothe scientific computation and visualization environmentMatlab (www.mathworks.com).

The latest release of EasySpin can be downloaded fromwww.esr.ethz.ch/easyspin. It requires Matlab 6.0 or later

and runs on PC/Windows, PC/Linux, Sun/Solaris and SGI/IRIX. The software itself is free, but the source code is notyet available to the public.

Powder spectraAlthough it offers a host of other features, the main pur-pose of EasySpin is the simulation of powder EPR spectra.A powder consists of a uniform random orientational dis-tribution of a large number of paramagnetic centres. Thepowder spectrum is nothing but the sum of the spectraarising from the single centres. For speedy computation, itis necessary to compute as few orientations as possible froma uniform distribution of orientations on the unit sphere.For this purpose, EasySpin uses a novel highly homoge-neous triangular arrangement with octahedral symmetry(see illustration). Other programs use simple theta/phi grids(SIM), spiral arrangements (EPR-NMR) or triangular gridswith D4h symmetry (XSophe). For each orientation, thesingle-crystal spectrum is computed. Each single-crystalspectrum is multiplied by a weighting factor which is pro-portional to the solid angle covered by the neighborhoodof the orientation (the borders of these so-called Voronoicells are shown in the illustration below). EasySpin is thefirst program to include exact weighting factors for thissummation.

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Resonance fieldsFor field-swept EPR spectra, resonance fields can be com-puted either analytically or numerically. Analytical solu-tions are limited in scope and exist only for small systemswith one dominant interaction (e.g. the electron Zeemaninteraction). Nowadays, practically all programs use en-tirely numerical procedures. First, state energies and vec-tors at one or more values of the external magnetic field arecomputed by numerically diagonalizing the spin Hamilto-nians in their full matrix representations. These matrix di-agonalizations form the most time-consuming step of theentire simulation procedure.

Second, the state energies and vectors are used to com-pute the resonance fields. This is the point where numeri-cal programs differ from each other. XSophe implements alinear field segmentation scheme with second-order per-turbational corrections, SIM iterates using cubic polyno-mials, and EPR-NMR uses a Newton-Raphson approach.EasySpin obtains the resonance fields by interpolation froman adaptively modelled cubic spline representation of theenergy level diagram. This new method is accurate and veryrobust and needs less Hamiltonian diagonalizations thanthe other methods. In a complicated situation with manyanticrossings (see illustration), the method needs at mostthree diagonalizations per resonance field (illustration: 19resonance fields, 45 diagonalizations).

tion). In technical terms, this additional smoothing line-width is proportional to the magnitude of the gradient ofthe resonance field with respect to the orientation of themagnetic field in the molecular frame. The concept wasfirst developed in a rudimentary form by Høgni Weihe forhis program SIM and was later independently implementedin a more general form in both EasySpin and XSophe (whereit is called “mosaic misorientation model”).

InterpolationThe high cost of computing resonance fields can be avoidedby the application of much faster interpolative procedures.Once resonance fields are known for two similar spin Hamil-tonians, differing slightly e.g. in the orientation of the spinsystem with respect to the external magnetic field, the reso-nance fields of spin Hamiltonians lying in between can becomputed interpolatively with only small error. Both cubicand linear interpolation can be used, depending on whetherresonance fields or intensities are computed. EasySpin makesextensive use of these interpolation techniques.

Gradient smoothingAnother feature of EasySpin’s spectrum simulation algo-rithm that enhances performance is the use of gradientsmoothing. Before combining the computed single orien-tation spectra into a total powder spectrum, an additionalbroadening is added to the intrinsic line widths in order toreduce computational noise, i.e. to bridge the gaps betweenthe various peaks in the computed spectrum (see illustra-

EasySpin simulation exampleEasySpin’s functions do not have a graphical user interface,they can only be accessed from the Matlab command line.Nevertheless, they are straightforward to use. Matlab fea-tures a full-fledged programming language, so that manyspecialized EPR problems can be treated by programmingnew functions based upon EasySpin’s toolbox.

All the algorithmical improvements described above makeEasySpin’s cw EPR spectrum simulation function pep-per() general and very efficient. The following lines arethe input necessary to simulate a powder spectrum of aCu2+ complex at X band:

Sys = struct(’S’,1/2,’I’,3/2,’gn’,1.484);

Sys.g = [2 2 2.2]; Sys.A = [50 50 300];

Par = struct(’Range’,[270,360],’mwFreq’,9.5);

[B,Spectrum] = pepper(Sys,Par);

plot(B,Spectrum)

pepper() can treat parallel detection, temperature effects,higher order harmonics, systems with more than one elec-tron, interaction matrices with arbitrary orientations andstrains in g, A and D.

Other functions provide smaller building blocks for theuser. To compute only the resonance fields of an S = 1system with significant zero-field splitting, use

Sys = struct(’S’,1,’g’,2,’D’,[-1 –1 2]*3e3);

Par = struct(’mwFreq’,10);

Ori = [0;pi/5]; % [phi; theta]

ResFields = eigfields(Sys,Par,Ori)

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ResFields = [40.9060 238.4059 44.1146]


ENDOR and Pulse EPRPowder ENDOR spectra are much easier to simulate thancw EPR spectra. In addition, ENDOR spectra are com-monly measured selecting very few orientations and there-fore yielding single-crystal like spectra even for powders.However, the situation gets more complicated if ENDORspectra are not taken at the edges of complicated EPRspectral line shape. In this case, a full treatment of theorientation selection is crucial. EasySpin offers an ENDORsimulation routine with an accurate orientation selectionprocedure. Its usage is very similar to that of pepper().

A short word about pulse EPR simulations is in order.Generally applicable software is not yet available, due tothe absence of a theoretically general and experimentallyverified computational procedure. Current attempts are lim-ited to special experiments and S = 1/2 systems with small ganisotropy and small hyperfine couplings and includetryscore (for HYSCORE, by Daniella Goldfarb, WeizmannInstitute of Science) and a program by Zoltan Mádi (ETHZurich). Bruker BioSpin is working on an XSophe versionwith basic pulse EPR functionality. EasySpin is to includepulse EPR features in its next release.

More functionalitySince Matlab’s programming language is based on matri-ces, it is straightforward to compute spin operators andtheir functions. For example, the matrix representation of a90° pulse on an S = I = 1/2 system can be computed by thetwo lines

Sy = sop([1/2 1/2],’ye’);

Pulse = expm(i*pi/2*Sy)

In addition to the usual cartesian spin operators, EasySpinprovides a full set of Stevens operators for S > 1.

Among other features, EasySpin includes a function tocompute the effect of field modulation in a cw EPR experi-ment (pseudomodulation), a time evolution function fordensity matrices, a database of nuclear g values, many rel-evant physical constants, various line shape functions,apodization functions, tools to handle rotation matricesand Euler angles, etc.

Spectral fittingThe development and application of numerical optimiza-tion algorithms for fitting spin Hamiltonian parameters toexperimental spectra is still in its infancy, mainly due to theusually exceptionally bad behavior of the error function.For powder spectra, current methods work well only whenthe starting guesses of the parameters are very close to thecorrect ones or when experimental spectra at different mi-crowave frequencies are available. Thus, numerical fittingis mainly a tool for final refinement of spin Hamiltonianparameters. Some of the programs mentioned in the intro-duction have built-in spectral fitting capabilities. Matlaboffers a variety of fully customizable optimization algo-rithms, which can be used together with EasySpin’s simula-tion functions to write fitting programs even for multiplespectra and other complex situations.

Further readingStoll St.: Spectral Simulations in Solid-State EPR. Ph.D.

thesis, ETH Zurich 2003.Griffin M., Muys A., Noble C., Wang D., Eldershaw C.,

Gates K.E., Burrage K., Hanson G.R.: XSophe, a Com-puter Simulation Software Suite for the Analysis of Elec-tron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra. Mol. Phys. Rep.26, 60–84 (1999)

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The results obtained from international ex-periments, which were carried out in 1962[1] and 1991–92 [2], clearly demonstratedthe essential difficulties in quantitative EPRspectroscopy. In principle, experimental er-rors in quantitative EPR measurements fora given laboratory and a given EPR spec-trometer may be reduced in carefully per-formed experiments to between 2 and 5%[3, 4]. However, in practice, quantitativeanalysis of the same sample in different labo-ratories produced results, which gave an un-certainty from 100 to 200% [1, 4], and oth-ers up to 500% [5]. No satisfactory explana-tion for this discrepancy has been found atpresent.

The main aim of this short contributionis to inform the wide EPR community aboutknown primary and secondary error sourcesin quantitative EPR measurements. We be-lieve that the tips outlined at the end of thisreport would be helpful in quantitative EPRpraxis.

Many error sources influence the accu-racy and reproducibility of quantitative EPRspectroscopy [3]. The list of instrument- andsample-associated variables, which can af-fect EPR measurements, is very extensiveand the majority of these error sources maycause significant systematic and/or non-systematic errors in quantitative EPR experi-ments. Some of the most difficult problemshave been selected as follows:

Primary Error SourcesA) Sample-associated problemsSample preparation:– sample material (dielectric constant),– lossy-solvent sample,– sample volume and sample shape,– sample tube,– tube wall thickness,– lens effect,– packing problem,– packing density for powder and poly-

crystalline material.

Sample insertion into the microwave cavity:– sample positioning and orientation,– sample alignment procedure.B) Instrument-associated problemsMicrowave cavity:– microwave field profile,– power intensity (saturation),– cavity Q-factor change,– filling factor,– spectrometer sensitivity,– single or double cavity,– flat cell cavity.Modulation frequency:– modulation field profile,– modulation coil diameter.Variable-temperature quartz Dewar:– presence/absence during measurement,– sucking-in and lens effect.

Secondary Error SourcesC) Data processing-associated problems– signal intensity,– signal-to-noise ratio,– double integration,– base line correction,– limits of integration.D) EPR standard- and calibration-associated problems– internal or external standard,– primary or secondary standard,– relative spin concentration,– absolute spin concentration,– spectrometer calibration (microwave

power, modulation amplitude, signalamplifier),

– self-calibration,– calibration via Internet,E) Human factor– absent-minded operator,– laboratory negligence,– interchanging of samples, parameters,

data files, etc.

In order to minimize the influence of sucherror sources in quantitative EPR spectros-copy the most effective way would be to usethe same standardized procedures for all EPRmeasurements and post-recording spectramanipulations. According to our theoreticalcomputations and experimentally obtainedresults, it is strongly recommended that allthe samples to be compared in quantitativeEPR should have an identical shape [6–8].Commercially distributed software for post-recording spectra manipulations is a basicnecessity. Accurate and precise positioningof each sample in the cavity by a specialalignment procedure is also essential [9, 10].

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Error Sources in QuantitativeEPR SpectroscopyMilan Mazúr and Marián ValkoFaculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak Technical University,Radlinského 9, SK-812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia

Tips& Techniques

References1. Kohnlein W. in: Radiation Effects in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Ebert M., Howard A., eds.),

p. 206. Amsterdam: Nord Holland Publishing Company 1963.2. Yordanov N.D., Ivanova M.: Appl. Magn. Reson. 6, 333 (1994)3. Warren D.C., Fitzgerald J.M.: Anal. Chem. 49, 250 (1977)4. Casteleijn G., ten Bosch J.J., Smidt J.: Appl. Phys. 39, 3475 (1968)5. Yordanov N.D.: Appl. Magn. Reson. 6, 241 (1994)6. Mazúr M., Morris H., Valko M.: J. Magn. Reson. 129, 188 (1997)7. Mazúr M., Valko M., Morris H.: J. Magn. Reson. 142, 37 (2000)8. Mazúr M., Valko M., Morris H.: Appl. Magn. Reson. 20, 317 (2001)9. Mazúr M., Valko M., Klement R., Morris H.: Anal. Chim. Acta 333, 249 (1996)

10. Mazúr M., Valko M., Morris H.: Rev. Sci. Inst. 68, 2514 (1997)



The XXIst InternationalConference onPhotochemistry (ICP21)Nara-ken New Public Hall, Nara, JapanJuly 26 (Sat) – 31 (Thu), 2003http://www.pac.ne.jp/icp21/

Scope of the Conference: The conferencecovers diverse topics in general fields of pho-tochemistry. The subjects include spin-me-diated elementary processes in spin chemis-try and time-resolved ESR spectroscopy, andorganic photochemistry and reactive inter-mediates, from both theoretical and experi-mental sides. A conference report will begiven in a forthcoming issue of the EPR news-letter.

1st ESR Summer School forGraduate Students on“Spin Polarization andTime-domain ESR”Sendai, JAPAN, August 5–7, 2003http://www.icrs.tohoku.ac.jp/SEST/summers.html

This program is sponsored by the Society ofElectron Spin Science and Technology. Theschool is open for undergraduate and gradu-ate students to study fundamental and ad-vanced ESR and catch an opportunity ofmaking friends with ESR and/or non-ESRstudents and junior scientists. The title ofthe course is “Spin Polarization and Time-Domain ESR” and the subjects cover CIDEP(chemically induced dynamic polarization)mechanisms, spin-correlated radical pairs,excited states, magnetic field effects, the sto-chastic Liouville equation, high-field ESR,two dimensional ESR and so forth. The di-rector of this school is Prof. Seigo Yamauchiat Tohoku University and the lecturers areDr. Tadaaki Ikoma at Tohoku University,Dr. Akio Kawai at Tokyo Institute of Tech-

nology, and Dr. Kiminori Maeda at TsukubaUniversity. A conference report will be givenin a forthcoming issue of the EPR newsletter.

For more information, please contact:Prof. S. YamauchiIMRAM at Tohoku UniversitySendai 980-8577, JAPANfax: 81-22-217-5616e-mail: [email protected]

5th Meeting of theEuropean Federation of EPRGroups (EFEPR)Lisbon, Portugal, September 7- 11 2003http://dequim.ist.utl.pt/EFEPR/

The 5th meeting of the European Federa-tion of EPR groups will be held in Lisbon,Portugal, from Sunday 7 to Thursday 11September 2003. The meeting will providea forum for scientists engaged in EPR spec-troscopy to present and discuss recent re-sults and developments. The scope of themeeting will cover all aspects of EPR spec-troscopy, including applications in the fieldsof physics, chemistry, materials, biology andmedicine, new techniques, instrumentationdevelopments and theory.

Scientific ProgramThe scientific program includes plenary/

invited talks as well as oral presentations thatwill be selected from the submitted abstractsand poster sessions. The following colleagueshave so far agreed to present plenary talksand invited lectures:

PLENARY TALKSD. Lurie (UK) Field-cycled Overhauser

techniques for the study of free radicals in-vivo

J. Moura (Portugal) EPR: a powerful toolfor the study of metaloproteins

W. Rutherford (France) The photosystemII reaction centre: structure and functionfrom EPR studies

A. Schweiger (Switzerland) Old wine innew bottles and new wine in old bottles

Y. D. Tsvetkov (Russia) Pulsed ELDORand its chemical and biochemical applications

J. Freed (USA) Modern ESR methods instudies of membranes and proteins

For more information, please contact:Joao Paulo Telo5th Meeting of EFEPRDep. de Química,Instituto Superior TécnicoAv. Rovisco Pais, P-1049-001 LisboaPORTUGALphone: (351) 21 8417879fax: (351) 21 8417122e-mail: [email protected]

Specialized ColloqueAMPERE 2003NMR and EPR of Broad-Line SolidsDedicated to Professor Robert Blinc onthe occasion of his 70th birthdayBernardin, Portorošsz, Slovenia,September 8–12, 2003http://ampere2003.ijs.si/

Scope of the ConferenceThe program of the conference is intendedto cover solid-state NMR and EPR spec-troscopy of solid materials with extremelybroad resonance lines which in many casescannot be measured by conventional pulsedtechniques. Instead, one has to apply field-sweep and frequency-sweep techniques ei-ther in a CW mode or in a step-by-steppulsed mode. In addition, line-narrowingtechniques to reduce broad spectra shall beincluded.

The program will focus on the followingtopics:– field-sweep and frequency-sweep NMR,

NQR and EPR techniques, either in CWmode or in combination with pulse tech-niques

– line-narrowing techniques– ferro- and antiferromagnetic resonances in

magnetic materials, nanomagnets, colos-sal-magnetoresistance systems

– magnetic resonances in electronic conduc-tors, metals, semiconductors, charge-den-sity waves, spin-density waves, supercon-ductors

– magnetic resonance in quasicrystals– magnetic resonance in spin glasses, pro-

ton glasses, polymer glasses, orientationalglasses, relaxor systems

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– detection of broad lines by novel tech-niques like SQUID-detection and Atomic-Force-Microscope detection

– 2D NMR and EPR techniques on verybroad lines

– organic and inorganic nanotubes– fullerene derivatives– electronic and engineering ceramic mate-

rials

7th InternationalConference on MagneticResonance Microscopy7th “Heidelberg” ConferenceSeptember 21–26, 2003http://www.physics.utah.edu/~icmrm/

The 7th International Conference on Mag-netic Resonance Microscopy will be held atSnowbird, Utah from September 21–26,2003, and will be preceded by an Educa-tional Program on September 20–21. TheChair is David C. Ailion and the Co-Chairis Robert E. Botto.

The official email address for the confer-ence is [email protected]

You can address any questions to this emailaddress. Please check this web site from timeto time for further information about theConference.

The 8th InternationalSymposium on Spin andMagnetic Field Effects inChemistry and RelatedPhenomenahttp://www.chem.unc.edu/conferences/SCM2003/

SCM2003 will be held September 21–26,2003 at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill,North Carolina, USA. North Carolina is amid-Atlantic state with convenient access tobeautiful beaches and mountains, includingSmoky Mountain National Park which bor-ders Tennessee, and the Cape Hatteras Na-tional Seashore which contains some of themost pristine oceanfront in the United States.The University of North Carolina at ChapelHill is the oldest public university in thecountry, opening its doors in 1793 and ac-cepting its first student in 1795. The Uni-

versity is a cornerstone of the Research Tri-angle Park, one of the largest research andindustrial parks in the world. The greaterTriangle area, which comprises Chapel Hill,the state capitol Raleigh (home of N.C. StateUniversity) and Durham (home of DukeUniversity), grew to over1 million inhabit-ants in 2000. We welcome you to join us forSCM2003 in the “southern part of heaven.”

ISMAR 2004October 24-29, 2004http://www.ismar.org/

The 15th ISMAR meeting will be held inJacksonville, Florida, USA in October, 2004,under the chairmanship of Prof. Tim Cross.It will take place near Ponte Vedra Beachoutside of Jacksonville on the north FloridaAtlantic coast at a beautiful time of the year.The conference will be held at the SawgrassMarriott Resort (www.marriotthotels.com/jaxsw). We will have the complete confer-ence and hotel facilities at our disposal forthe conference week. There will be excel-lent facilities for both plenary and parallelsessions, as well as lots of space for posters.Special hotel rates will be available for stu-dents and there will also be excellent loca-tions for vendor and sponsor displays. Apreconference summer school will be heldat the NHMFL in Tallahassee, Fl. focusingon modern methodology in magnetic reso-nance. Buses will be available to transportattendees from Tallahassee to the SawgrassResort on Sunday, October 24th.

The 42nd (2003) Annual(International) Meeting ofthe Society of Electron SpinScience and Technology(2003SEST)Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, JapanOctober 29 (Wed.) – 31(Fri.), 2003http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/sest2003

Scope of the Conference: Electron spin mag-netic resonance and electron-spin based sci-ence and technology in a variety of pure andapplied natural sciences covering chemistry,bio-medical science, physics, materials sci-ences, geophysics and geology, radiology andenvironmental sciences, and their related

applications such as 2D-spectroscopy, spin-mediated magnetic field effects, in-vivo ap-plications and bio-medical imaging, ESRdosimetry and archeological applications,from both theoretical and experimental sides.Correspondence:

Masaru Shiotani, ChairpersonHiroshima Univ.,Graduate School of Eng.Kgamiyama 1-4-1, Higashi-Hiroshima739-8527, Japanphone & fax: +81-824-24-7736e-mail: [email protected]

Postponement of theAPES’03 & the InternationalSchoolto October/November 2004

Having now received the responses fromall APES Council Members as well assupport and endorsement from thePresident of the IES, Prof. Tsvetkov, wemay consider the decision to postpone thefollowing events, originally planned asindicated below, to the period October/November 2004 as unanimously ratifiedand confirmed.

(1) the Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Sympo-sium 2003 (APES’03) originally plannedto be held from November 17, 2003 toNovember 20, 2003 at the Indian Instituteof Science, Bangalore, India

as well as(2) the Satellite School to APES’03:

International School on EPR Spectroscopyand Free Radical Research, originallyplanned be held during November 11–15,2003 at Bhabha Atomic Research Center,Mumbai

Czeslaw RudowiczPresident, The Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR

Society (APES)

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The VIth Voevodsky Conference “Physicsand Chemistry of Elementary Chemical Pro-cesses” was held in Novosibirsk (Russia) onJuly 21–25, 2002. The First Conference ofthe series took place in 1977, to honor Aca-demician V. V. Voevodsky’s contribution tothe various areas of chemical kinetics andhis role in the development of physical meth-ods in chemistry. The Conference has thenbecome traditional and is held every fiveyears.

The scope of the meeting included elemen-tary processes in liquids, gases, solids, el-ementary processes in biology, magnetic andspin effects, development of instrumenta-tion and methodology. A significant num-ber of the contributions were directly re-lated to EPR, including advanced techniquessuch as high-field EPR and biological appli-cations of EPR. A number of top scientists,well known in the EPR world, took part inthe Conference. It was during this meetingthat the President of the IES Prof. John R.Pilbrow awarded the IES Gold Medal to Prof.Keith A. McLauchlan.

The conference was not however limitedto just one particular experimental technique.Many contributors reported on the devel-opment and applications of optical meth-ods, NMR, spin chemistry techniques, etc.The ultimate goal was investigation of el-ementary processes as found in chemistryand biology. Participants acknowledged thisinterdisciplinary approach as very interest-ing and stimulating.

The VIth Voevodsky Conference was at-tended by 180 participants, including 54scientists from outside Russia.

Sergei A. Dzuba and Dmitry V. Stass

Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker,Fachgruppe Magnetische Resonanzspektroskopie,Bremen, GermanySeptember 24–27, 2002Conference Chairman:Dieter Leibfritz, Bremen

TutorialPulsed EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy: Methods andApplicationsBremen, September 23–24, 2002Tutorial Chairman:Thomas Prisner, Frankfurt

Last year the topic of the Student Tutorialpreceding the yearly meeting of the Germanmagnetic resonance society was devoted topulse EPR spectroscopy. Lectures were givenby Marina Bennati (Frankfurt), Peter Höfer(Karlsruhe), Gunnar Jeschke (Mainz), Tho-mas Prisner (Frankfurt), Andreas Pöppl(Leipzig) and Jürgen Steinhoff (Osnabrück).The topic covered “Basics, Instrumentation,Simulations, ESEEM, PELDOR, Pulse-ENDOR and applications in biological sys-tems, catalysis and polymers”. The 1½ daytutorial gave the 20 participants of the tuto-rial, mainly PhD students with cw-EPRbackground from Germany, a condensedoverview of modern pulsed EPR methodsand possible application areas. Most of thestudents also participated with poster con-tributions in the directly following Discus-sion Meeting of the GDCh which took placetogether with guests from the Scandinavianmagnetic resonance communities. Sessionswere dedicated to Protein Structures, ESR,Diffusion, Biomedical MR and Solid-StateNMR with plenary talks covering the wholefield of MR spectroscopy.

Thomas Prisner

This workshop took place in Kazan in theperiod 2–4 October 2002 and preceded theceremony of the Annual Zavoisky Award.The program of the Workshop was as fol-lows:

V. E. Kataev (Kazan Physical-TechnicalInstitute, Kazan, Russia) Magnetic resonancein low-dimensional copper oxides

W. Lubitz (MPI for Radiation Chemistry,Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany) High-fieldEPR and ENDOR studies of dinuclear ex-change coupled metal centers in proteins andrelated model systems

M. V. Eremin (Kazan State University,Kazan, Russia) Divergence of the dynamiccharge susceptibility in layered cuprates as aprecursor of a phase transition into the slid-ing orbital current state

A. A. Konovalov, V. F. Tarasov (KazanPhysical-Technical Institute, Kazan, Russia)Submillimeter EPR spectroscopy of Ho3+

ions in synthetic forsteriteA. N. Garroway (US Naval Research Labo-

ratory, Washington, USA) Free inductiondecays and spin echoes in three-frequencyNQR: Theoretical and practical aspects

A. R. Kessel, N. M. Jakovleva (KazanPhysical-Technical Institute, Kazan, Russia)Schemes of implementation in NMR of thequantum search algorithm in virtual spinrepresentation

E. B. Feldman (Institute of Problems ofChemical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia)Multiple-quantum NMR dynamics in one-dimensional systems in solids: Theory andcomputer simulations

V. A. Ulanov, M. M. Zaripov, E. P. Zheg-lov, E. R. Zhiteitsev (Kazan Physical-Tech-nical Institute, Kazan, Russia) Copper im-purity clusters in calcium fluoride crystals:results of EPR study

C. Corvaja (University of Padova, Padova,Italy) TR-EPR study of the interaction be-tween photoexcited azulene and nitroxylradical linked to a peptide template

O. A. Vasina, O. I. Gnezdilov, M. P.Tseitlin, A. A. Obynochny (Kazan Physical-Technical Institute, Kazan, Russia) Spin andmolecular dynamics in course of photo-chemical processes. Study by EPR

Yu. I. Talanov (Kazan Physical-TechnicalInstitute, Kazan, Russia), H. Adrian, M.

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The 1st annual meeting of the Society ofElectron Spin Science and Technology washeld in Tokyo on October 28–30, 2002. Itwas organized by Prof. Tokuko Watanabe atTokyo University of Fisheries. This meetingwas originally a joint meeting of the 41stESR meeting and the 7th in vivo ESR meet-ing in Japan. As the Society of Electron SpinScience and Technology (SEST) has beenfounded during the meeting, the name ofthe meeting was modified. Now the societyand the meeting cover wide areas of re-searches in chemistry, biology, physics, andtechnology. Prof. Takeji Takui at Osaka CityUniversity, the Vice President of the IES,was elected as the first President of the SEST.The title of the Society does not include theword “Japan” or “Japanese”, because theyintend to evolve the activities of the societyfrom domestic to international.

The subjects of this meeting include therepresentations and discussions for new find-ings and developments in electron spin sci-ence and technology. The meeting consistsof the four sessions: invited lectures (7), oral(42) and poster (59) representations, and asymposium (2). The topics of two symposiawere the present and the future in (I) in vivoESR and (II) high-frequency ESR appara-tus. The number of registered participantswas 192 in this meeting, which far exceeded

the expectation of the organizing commit-tee.

I was attending the ESR meeting in chem-istry and was more interested in the meetingof SEST owing to various interesting oraland poster representations and animated dis-cussions not only with the chemists but alsophysicists, biologists, and physicians thistime. I have actually gotten valuable sugges-tions from them on my poster representa-tion. Although the studies on chemical reac-tions and high-spin states are strong areas inJapan, the reports on materials science andlife science are surely increasing. Dr. N.Mizuochi et al. at Tsukuba University re-ported on the structure and the electronicstate of vacancies in silicon carbide, whichare important to provide high-quality mate-rials. On the basis of the hyperfine constantsand nutation frequency, they discussed thevacancy of TV2a in detail and assigned it as aquartet state. As I am running W-band ESRexperiments, I was very interested in the sym-posium II. The lecture by Prof. M. Hagiwara,a physicist at RIKEN, showed clearly themerits of high-frequency ESR in the fieldsof magnetic materials and biological systems.Prof. H. Nojiri at Okayama University in-troduced a high-precision Terahertz ESR ma-chine by use of repeating (2 s) the pulsedfield (30 T) and extended his talk to applica-tions to studies in materials science, chemis-try, and biology.

We also had guests speakers from foreigncounties, Dr. Y. Kotake at Oklahoma Medi-cal Research Foundation, Dr. J. W. Chen atHarvard Medical School, Dr. P. H. Kasai atAlmaden Research Center, IBM, and Dr. L.V. Mosina at Kazan Physical-Technical In-stitute. They also gave nice and funny talksat the conference dinner.

The SEST is planning to hold an ESRsummer school for young scientists in thesummer of 2003, which is organized by Prof.Seigo Yamauchi at Tohoku University. We,young scientists, are extremely delighted tohave such a chance of studying electron spinscience and have exchange with junior sci-entists and believe this will develop the elec-tron spin science in Japan. Furthermore, wesincerely hope that some senior professorcould write a modern and practical ESR text-book for young students.

The next annual meeting of this Societywill be held at Hiroshima, Japan in the fallof 2003, organized by Prof. M. Shiotani atHiroshima University.

Yohei Iwasaki

The “summer” school Modern EPR Spec-troscopy – Methodology and Applicationsin Physics, Chemistry and Biology took placeat Retie, Belgium December 1–8, 2002. Theschool was an initiative of EFEPR (The Eu-ropean Federation of EPR groups), follow-ing the one that took place in Caorle in1999, organized by Marina Brustolon andwas funded primarily by the EU commis-sion through the High Level Scientific Con-ferences Program. The members of the sci-entific organizing committee were: D. Gold-farb, co-ordinator, Israel, K. Möbius, Ger-many, E. J. J. Groenen, The Netherlands, E.Goovaerts, Belgium. The local organizingcommittee members were: E. Goovaerts, A.Bouwen and S. Van Doorslaer, all from Uni-versity of Antwerp, Belgium. There were 90participants not including the 17 lecturers.The attendance was higher than expectedand unfortunately we were not able to ac-commodate late registrations due to accom-modation restrictions.

The scientific part of the school includedthree types of events. The first were lectureson topics that are central to modern EPRspectroscopy and included the basic theo-retical background, experimental methodsand examples of applications as follows:– Basic EPR theory – Spin Hamiltonian

and the various interactions –E. Goovaerts

– Basic EPR theory – density matrixformalism, exponential operators –D. Goldfarb

– Basic pulse EPR – G. Jeschke– Quantum-chemical calculation of EPR

observable – M. Kaupp– Relaxation in solids and liquids –

G. and S. Eatons– CW ENDOR – K. Möbius– FT-EPR spectroscopy – K. P. Dinse– ODMR workshop – D. Carbonera– ESEEM spectroscopy – S. Van Doorslaer– Pulsed ENDOR – E. J. J. Groenen– ELDOR spectroscopy – distance

measurements – G. Jeschke– Site directed spin labeling workshop –

J. Steinhoff

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The “Summer” SchoolModern EPR Spectroscopy –Methodology andApplications in Physics,Chemistry and Biology

Basset, G. Jakob (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut fur Physik, Mainz, Ger-many), G. Wirth (Gesellschaft fur Schwer-ionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany) Non-resonant microwave absorption study of thesurface barrier in ion irradiated supercon-ductors

M. Andruh (University of Bucharest,Bucharest, Romania) Oligomeric complexesas building blocks in designing supramo-lecular multimetallic systems with interest-ing magnetic properties

M. I. Ibragimova, V. Yu. Petukhov, E. P.Zheglov, G. V. Konjukhov, A. A. Obynochny(Kazan Physical-Technical Institute, Kazan,Russia) Investigation of radiotoxin action onblood by magnetic radiospectroscopy


– High-field EPR – K. Möbius,E. J. J. Groenen, D. Goldfarb

– Time-resolved and transient EPR – P. Hore– EPR/ENDOR in Physics workshop –

G. Denninger– High-spin systems – D. Gatteschi– Dynamic EPR – M. Brustolon– Instrumentation – P. Höfer– Pulsed EPR special – combined ESEEM/

ENDOR – G. JeschkeEach lecturer gave 2–4 lectures and em-

phasis was on starting with the basic suchthat the students who came from differentbackgrounds and different fields could fol-low. After presenting the basics and the prin-ciples the lecturers presented state of the artresults on the topic, usually not limited onlyto their own research. There were also threeworkshops, each of 1 hour, which were dedi-cated to timely research and were aimed atstimulating the students with current prob-lems and challenges in the field. The thirdevent was the poster sessions (total 65 post-ers) where the participants presented theirwork and discussed it enthusiastically withtheir peers and the lecturers.

One afternoon was devoted to a tour inthe laboratories of E. Goovaerts and S. VanDoorslaar and participants were exposed topulse X-band EPR and high-field EPR spec-trometers. The fourth workshop (2 h), thattook part at the end of the school, was orga-nized by the students and was dedicated towhat they learned and experienced in theschool. This was a very nice combination ofscience and humor.

All students were given a folder at the be-ginning of the meeting, which included allthe lecture notes and considerable effortswere put into it. The lecturers prepared theirlectures ahead of time to allow the produc-

This school provides further evidence thatthe idea, conceived and implemented for thefirst time in Caorle in 1999, of creating adidactic meeting for the EPR community isa winning choice. Moreover, it is clear thatthe organizers committee had worked withthe one of the organizers of Caorle schoolbecause I noticed that some suggestions,which came from students after the previ-ous school, were taken into account.

Actually the lectures were more didacticthan they were in Caorle. This fact was moreevident with younger lecturers, because theyput some effort in creating an intuitive,physical description of each presented tech-nique and in finding simple literature ex-amples which explained when and withwhich samples a specific experiment is boundto be successful.

Thinking about the next school, it couldbe useful to plan a very informal gatheringin the evening during which students canfigure out what they don’t latch on, discusstogether and ask questions to the teachers,without any fear. Indeed, it was noticed thatfew students asked questions at the end ofthe lectures: in this way it should be easier.

The point that the EFEPR needs to focuson is: what do we really want from this typeof school? I think that such schools shouldbe either an informal meeting between pro-fessors and students and an opportunity ofexchanging experience among students fromdifferent Institutions. I hope that next timethe students will be less shy so that the gapbetween “teachers” and “students” shall benarrower and all of us, students and profes-sors, can exploit such meetings to find outnew energy to continue the hard, charmingwork of scientific research.

Anna M. Ferretti, student

�The second European EPR School took placein Retie (Belgium) from December 1, 2002to December 8, 2002. As most of the par-ticipants can confirm, the second EU-EPRschool was wonderful: funny gathering, nicetours in Lier and Antwerpen, good beer, de-licious pralines and a really nice banquet.The single blind spot is that sometimes we,students, had to attend the lectures.

Joking aside: the second EPR EU-Schoolfor young investigators was a real success. Itoffered the opportunity of a less formal meet-ing between professors and students thanduring a conference. The level of the lec-tures was well tuned, growing day by day ina logical order, and giving a broad overviewof EPR techniques, from the basic to themost advanced level. All topics about EPRand ENDOR spectroscopy were presentedin an exhaustive way, with interesting theo-retical introductions followed by well-cho-sen experimental examples.

tion of the script. In addition most of thenotes were presented in a format that is veryclear and after the students added their noteswe hope they can be used as a good refer-ence for years to come.

Efforts were made to promote discussionsand questions during and after the lectures(this was a bit slow…) and the two studentswho were most active in this respect got aprize at the banquet (a bottle of special Bel-gian beer).

All in all we think that the school was asuccess, there is always room for improve-ment and we hope that the next school willbe much better!!!

Daniella Goldfarb, co-ordinator


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In this column, new books, journals and reviews on EPR,or literature closely related to EPR, are presented and briefly reviewed.The column covers material published starting from 2000 up to date;completeness is not claimed.

Principles of Pulse ElectronParamagnetic ResonanceArthur Schweiger and Gunnar JeschkePrice: £ 95 (Hardcover)Publication date: July, 2001Publisher: Oxford University Press578 pages, 250 line figures, ISBN 0-19-850634-1List of known errors:http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~jeschke/significant_corrections_240802.pdf

A Specialist Periodical Report:Electron ParamagneticResonance, vol. 17Senior Reporters: B. C. Gilbert, M. J. Davies,and K. A. McLauchlanPrice: £ 170 (Hardcover)Publication date: November, 2000Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry332 pages, ISBN 0-85404-301-1

The “Specialist periodical reports” of theRoyal Society of Chemistry cover in a criti-cal way the literature in various fields ofchemistry. “Electron Paramagnetic Reso-nance vol. 17” is the latest issue of this popu-lar series devoted to EPR. It contains a num-ber of reviews written by experts in the fieldthat are very useful in the daily work of EPRspectroscopists.

From the back cover: This book highlightsmajor developments in electron paramag-netic resonance up to the end of 1999, withresults being set into the context of earlierwork and presented as a set of critical yetcoherent overviews. The topics covered de-scribe contrasting types of application, rang-ing from biological areas such as EPR andENDOR studies of metalloproteins and evi-dence of free-radical reactions in biology andmedically-related systems, to experimentaldevelopments and applications involvingEPR imaging, the use of very high fields,and time-resolved methods. Critical reviewsof applications involving bacterial photosyn-thesis, spin-labelling and spin-probes stud-ies of self-assembled systems, and organo-metallic chemistry are also included.

Contents:Biological Free Radicalsby M. J. Davies and G. S. TimminsRecent EPR Studies on the BacterialPhotosynthetic Reaction Centreby S. WeberFT-EPR and Pulsed ENDOR Studiesof Encapsulated Atoms and Ionsby K.-P. DinseEPR Imagingby S. S. Eaton and G. R. EatonPulsed and Time-Resolved EPR Studiesof Transient Radicals, Radical Pairs andExcited States in Photochemical Systemsby H. Murai, S. Tero-Kubotaand S. YamauchiProgress in High Field EPRby G. M. Smith and P. C. RiediEPR Spin-Labelling and Spin-ProbeStudies of Self-assembled Systemsby A. Caragheorgheopoland H. CaldararuEPR and ENDOR of Metalloproteinsby J. Hüttermann and R. Kappl

From the back cover: This book explains thefoundations of pulse EPR, a field of spec-troscopy, which has now come of age andhas found widespread application in inves-tigations of structure, dynamics, and func-tion of biological systems and synthetic ma-terials. For the first time a systematic over-view of the whole field is given, includingcoverage of Fourier-transform EPR, relax-ation measurements, electron spin echo en-velope modulation (ESEEM), pulse elec-tron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR),pulse electron-electron double resonance(ELDOR), transient nutation, and a num-ber of advanced techniques. Researchers ap-proaching the field will find here the basictheory as well as a description and criticalevaluation of the existing methods neededfor selecting the proper experiment, con-ducting it, and analyzing the results. Theexperienced researcher active in the field willfind this book a useful reference and a guideto adapting EPR pulse sequences to newproblems.

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Object-Oriented MagneticResonance: Classes andObjects, Calculations andComputationsMichael Mehring andVolker A. WeberrußPrice: $ 79.95 (Hardcover)Publication date: June, 2001Publisher: Academic Press560 pages, ISBN 0127406204

The structure of this book, written by oneof the top experts in the field and a freelancephysicist, is unorthodox and new. The book,which consists of the parts “Spin Physics”,“Magnetic Resonance”, and “Complemen-tary Analytical and Numerical Methods”, isbased on an object-oriented analytical treat-ment of magnetic resonance by definingclasses and objects in Hilbert and Liouvillespaces. It can strongly be recommended toEPR spectroscopists who are interested inthe spin physics pulse EPR is based on, andas a supplement to the book “Principles ofpulse electron paramagnetic resonance” men-tioned above.

of magnetic resonance has no counterpartin any type of experimental technique. Theauthors present explanations and applicationsfrom fundamental to advanced levels. Addi-tionally, they pave the way to successfullysimulating magnetic resonance phenomenanumerically through an accompanying CD-ROM.

Principles of MagneticResonance Imaging, a SignalProcessing PerspectiveZhi-Pei Liang and Paul C. LauterburPrice: $ 99.95 (Hardcover)Publication date: November, 2000Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press416 pages, ISBN 0-7803-4723-4

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is whatmakes magnetic resonance known to the manon the street. The number of books thatcover the different aspects of MRI is over-whelming. However, most of these booksare medically-oriented and are mainly writ-ten for physicians. Since also EPR imagingbecomes more and more important, a text-book which describes the principles of MRIin a language we are familiar with is a need.Fortunately, such a textbook with PaulLauterbur, the inventor of MRI as one ofthe two authors, has now become available.

Provides students of biomedical engineer-ing, biophysics, chemistry, electrical engi-neering, and radiology with systematic, in-depth understanding of MRI.

A Chemist’s Guide to DensityFunctional TheoryWolfram Koch and Max C. HolthausenPrice: $ 69.95 (Paperback)Publication date: July, 2001Publisher: John Wiley & Sons2nd edition, 528 pages, ISBN 3-527-30372-3

The paramountcy of density functionaltheory (DFT) is out of question and recentsuccess in the prediction of EPR parameterusing this theory makes DFT an indispens-able tool for EPR spectroscopist. The bookby Wolfram Koch and Max Holthausen isan excellent introductory text to DFT forreaders who would like to make first ac-quaintance with the subject without gettinglost in mathematical details.

Editorial review: This book presents, for thefirst time, a unified treatment of the quan-tum mechanisms of magnetic resonance, in-cluding both nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR).Magnetic resonance is perhaps the most ad-vanced type of spectroscopy and it is appliedin biology, chemistry, physics, materials sci-ence, and medicine. If applied in conjunc-tion with spectroscopy, the imaging version

From the back cover: The book provides a clearand comprehensive treatment of MR imageformation principles from a signal process-ing perspective. It contains a comprehensiveset of examples and homework problems.

From the editorial review: “The authors havedone an excellent service to the chemicalcommunity. A Chemist’s Guide to DensityFunctional Theory is exactly what the titlesuggests. It should be an invaluable sourceof insight and knowledge for many chemistsusing DFT approaches to solve chemicalproblems.” – M. Kaupp

“The authors’ aim is to guide the chemistthrough basic theoretical and related techni-cal aspects of DFT at an easy-to-understandtheoretical level. They succeed admirably.” –P. C. H. Mitchell, Appl. Organomet. Chem.


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My Road to Biophysics: Picking Flowers onthe Way to PhotosynthesisGeorge Feher

Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 31,1–44 (2002)

This is a highly recommended report whichdescribes the career progression of one ofour great. It is a very instructive and skillfultext with a bunch of interesting scientificinformation and written with humor androgue. Definitely a must!See also: George Feher: Three decades of re-search in bacterial photosynthesis and theroad leading to it: A personal account. Pho-tosynthesis Research 55, 1–40 (1998)

New Methods in Electron ParamagneticResonance Spectroscopy for Structure andFunction Determination in BiologicalSystemsThomas F. Prisner

in: Essays in Contemporary Chemistry:From Molecular Structure towardsBiology by Gerhard Quinkert andM. Volkan Kisakürek (Editors)

Price: 149 (Hardcover)Publication date: October 2001Publisher: Wiley-VCH472 pages, ISBN 3-906390-28-4

In this brief account the rapidly increasingimpact of modern EPR techniques for thedetermination of local structures and dynam-ics of disordered systems is emphasised. Thereview is written for a broader audience andmainly concentrates on ENDOR and mul-tifrequency EPR.From the book description: In this volume, in-ternationally renowned chemists recounttheir roles in the progress of chemistry re-search toward elucidation of biological pro-cesses. Beginning with a historical perspec-tive on the development of X-ray crystallog-raphy, the reader is regaled with first-handaccounts of research milestones. The con-tributors, who number among the finest sci-entists in the world, including two NobelPrize winners, are Peter B. Dervan, Jack D.Dunitz, Christian Griesinger, Jean-MarieLehn, Thomas F. Prisner, Gerhard Quinkert,Peter G. Schultz, Helmut Schwarz, DieterSeebach, and Ahmed Zewail. Additionally,there is a prologue by Albert Eschenmoser,for whom this collection was conceived, andan epilogue that contains facsimiles of notesfrom his landmark lecture ‘Synthesis of Co-Enzyme B12: A Vehicle for Teaching Or-ganic Synthesis’.

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)BiodosimetryMarc Desrosiers and David A. Schauer

Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B184, 219–228 (2001)

This short review is mainly focused on do-simetry of tooth enamel. It describes samplecollection and preparation, as well as dosereconstruction and the interpretation of theEPR data.

Spin-Hamiltonian Formalisms in ElectronMagnetic Resonance (EMR) and RelatedSpectroscopiesCzeslaw Rudowicz and Sushil K. Misra

Appl. Spect. Rev. 36, 11–63 (2001)

This is an extensive review about one of ourmain tool, the spin Hamiltonian. It explainsthe nature of the spin Hamiltonian, intro-duces fictitious spins, calls the readers atten-tion to misconcepts related to the zero-fieldsplitting, and tries to put things straight withrespect to notations. The text can highly berecommended for those who work with tran-

Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation(ESEEM) Spectroscopy as a Tool toInvestigate the CoordinationEnvironment of Metal CentersYiannis Deligannakis, Maria Louloudi,and Nick Hadjiliadis

Coord. Chem. Review 204, 1–112 (2000)

ESEEM spectroscopy in one and two di-mensions is one of the corner stones of pulseEPR spectroscopy. This review gives thereader a first access to the field, and describesrecent applications of ESEEM to elucidatethe structure of active sites in metallo-proteins.

Parametrization of ESR Spectra inDisordered Solids: Measurement AspectsL. Cugunov, p. 1–30Computer Aided Analysis of EPR Spectraof Copper ComplexesR. Basosi, G. Delle Lunga, and R. Pogni,p. 169–210Applications of EPR Spectroscopy in SolidsA. B. Vassilikou-Dova, p. 405–440Two-Dimensional ESEEM SpectroscopyS. A. Dikanov, p. 523–568

in: New Advances in Analytical Chemis-try by Atta-Ur-Rahman (Editor)

Price: $ 264 (Hardcover)Publication date: September, 2000Publisher: Taylor & Francis1272 pages, ISBN 9058230317

This book about recent developments inspectroscopy contains four reviews relatedto EPR. The review by L. Cugunov is de-voted to computer simulations of EPR spec-tra, a field with ongoing research activity. Inthe review by R. Basosi, G. della Lunga andR. Pogni, the analysis of copper complexesin solutions and in solids is described. Theinterest in this type of compounds goes likea threat through the EPR literature and hasrecently underwent a revival in studies re-lated to catalysts and metalloproteins. Thecontribution of A. B. Vassilikou-Dova is anintroductory text about EPR and its appli-cations to defect centers. Finally, S. A.Dikanov describes the power of HYSCOREspectroscopy, the most popular two-dimen-sional pulse EPR experiment. He highlightsthe basic concepts and illustrates the poten-

tial of the technique by a number of applica-tions on transition metal complexes.From the editorial review: This book presentsrecent developments in various spectroscopictechniques such as NMR spectroscopy andmass spectroscopy in the form of 30 reviews.Papers dealing with NMR include the struc-tural elucidation of polysaccharides, isotopeeffects in NMR spectra as a structural toolfor organic molecules, solid state NMR stud-ies of carbohydrates and their analogues,application of the Z-COSY technique forthe analysis of NMR spectra of orientedmolecules, and two-dimensional ESEEMspectroscopy. Other papers discuss computeraided analysis of EPR spectra of copper com-plexes, and nuclear quadrupole resonancestudies of electron density distribution andmolecular dynamics.

REVIEWS sition metal and rare-earth ions, in particu-lar with spin systems S > 1/2.


Spin Chemistry in JapanA special issue of Applied Magnetic Resonanceedited by Seigo Yamauchi andMasaharu Okazaki

The studies of the magnetic field effect werestarted in Japan in the middle of the 70’sand rapidly developed in the 80’s and early90’s. This is considered to be the first GoldenAge of spin chemistry in Japan. Thereafter,various kinds of magnetic field effects andtheir mechanisms have been found and dis-cussed extensively in a variety of systems tillthe middle of the 90’s. Another field relatedto spin chemistry which employed EPR tech-niques was opened in Japan in the early 80’s.Although the Japanese groups working onthe magnetic field effects in chemical reac-tions took the leadership in competition withforeign groups, the Japanese EPR chemistswere left behind for several years. However,as many groups made continuous efforts intheir studies, spin chemistry flourished inour country in the middle of the 90’s, mak-ing a second Golden Age. The studies weremostly made of photochemical reaction in-termediates such as radicals, radical pairs,and excited triplet states, by means of time-resolved EPR and unique methods of prod-uct-yield-detected magnetic resonance. Sincethe late 90’s, spin chemistry is still develop-ing and extended over new aspects of photo-chemistry and to the related areas, such asmaterials science, physics, and biochemis-try. In this special issue of Applied MagneticResonance, we present a selection of ourcommunity’s recent achievements.

Part I: PhotochemistryH. Murai, S. Yamauchi, A. Kawai, K. Obi,N. Hirota: Developments of Magnetic-Reso-nance-Related Spin Chemistry in JapanY. Kobori, T. Yago, S. Tero-Kubota: Diffu-sion-Model Analysis of Effective CIDEPDistance in Solvent-Separated Radical-IonPairH. Yonemura, S. Moribe, K. Hayashi, M.Noda, H. Tokudome, S. Yamada, H. Na-kamura: Photoinduced Intramolecular Elec-tron-Transfer Reactions in Carbazole-Fulle-rene and Phenothiazine-Fullerene Linked

Compounds in Benzene and Benzonitrile asStudied by Fluorescence, Transient Absorp-tion, Time-Resolved EPR, and MagneticField EffectsM. Horiuchi, K. Maeda, T. Arai: MagneticField Effect on Electron Transfer Reactionsof Flavin Derivatives Associated with Mi-cellesY. Sakaguchi, J. R. Woodward: Pulse-ShiftMeasurement: a Direct Observation of Radi-cal Pair Dynamics in a MicelleK. Hansongnern, T. Fukuju, H. Yashiro,K. Maeda, T. Azumi, H. Murai: Time-Re-solved EPR Study of the Photoreduction ofPhthalic Anhydride and Chlorinated Ph-thalic Anhydrides in 2-PropanolA. Kawai: Dynamic Electron PolarizationCreated by the Radical-Triplet Pair Mecha-nism: Application to the Studies on ExcitedState Deactivation Processes by Free Radi-calsK. Ishii, T. Ishizaki, N. Kobayashi: Time-Resolved EPR Studies on Magnetic Interac-tions between Excited Triplet (Tetraphenyl-porphinato) Zinc and Doublet NitroxideRadicalY. Iwasaki, K. Katano, Y. Ohba, S. Karawa-sa, N. Koga, S. Yamauchi: On the g-ValueShift and Intersystem Crossing in Photo-Excited Radical-Triplet SystemsM. Asano-Someda, N. Toyama, Y. Kaizu:Time-Resolved EPR Spectra of a Photo-excited Phenanthrene-Linked Copper(II)-Free-Base Porphyrin Dimer: An Intermedi-ate-Coupling Case in a Triplet-Doublet SpinSystemY. Kamata, K. Akiyama, S. Tero-Kubota,M. Tabata: Two-Laser Two-Color Time-Re-solved EPR Study on Higher-Excited-StateTriplet-Singlet Intersystem Crossing of Por-phyrins and PhthalocyaninesM. Yagi, I. Yamamoto, R. Sasase, K. Seki:Optical and Time-Resolved Electron Para-magnetic Resonance Studies of the ExcitedStates of Para-Methylcinnamic Acid andPara-Methylcinnamate Anion

Part II: Material Science, Methodology, Bio-chemistryM. Okazaki, K. Toriyama, N. Sawaguchi,K. Oda: The Solution Flow through the

Nanochannel of MCM-41: a Spin-ProbeStudyT. Ikoma, S. Okada, S. Tero-Kubota, H.Nakanishi, T. Kato, P. Höfer, A. Kamlowski,K. Akiyama: Angle-Selective Measurementsof Spin Soliton in Ladder Polydiacetyleneby Pulsed 94 GHz EPRS. Kuroda: ESR and ENDOR Studies ofSolitons and Polarons in Conjugated Poly-mersY. Matsuda: Encapsulation of Atomic Hy-drogen into Silsesquioxane Cages and ESRof Encapsulated Hydrogen AtomsS. Okubo, T. Kato: ESR Parameters of aSeries of La@Cn IsomersD. Shiomi, C. Kaneda, T. Kanaya, K. Sato,T. Takui: Hyperfine Structure of ESR Spec-tra as a Probe for Heisenberg Exchange Cou-plings in Nitroxide Triradicals Serving asBuilding Blocks for Molecule-Based Ferri-magnetsH. Morikawa, S. Karasawa, N. Koga: Mag-netic Properties after Irradiation of Tetra-kis[4-(α-diazobenzyl)pyridine]copper(II) ina Frozen SolutionH. Matsuoka, K. Sato, D. Shiomi, T. Takui:2-D Electron Spin Transient Nutation Spec-troscopy of Lanthanoid Ion Eu2+ (8S7/2) in aCaF2 Single Crystal on the Basis of FT-PulsedElectron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy: Tran-sition Moment SpectroscopyY. Ohba: Application of Two-DimensionalPulsed EPR Nutation Spectroscopy to a Dis-ordered System with Large g-AnisotropyA. Kawamori, N. Katsuta, H. Hara: Struc-tural Analysis of Three-Spin Systems of Pho-tosystem II by PELDORH. Mino, T. Ono: Applications of PulsedELDOR-Detected NMR Measurements toStudies of Photosystem II: Magnetic Char-acterization of YD Tyrosine Radical andMn2+ Bound to the High-Affinity SiteK. Kasazaki, K. Yasukawa, H. Sano, K.Yamada, H. Utsumi: Application of In VivoESR Spectroscopy to Pharmaceutical Sci-ences: Evaluation of In Vivo InhibitoryMechanism of Antigastric Lesion Drugs

A copy of this double issue (Applied Mag-netic Resonance vol. 23, nr. 3–4) costs EUR332.- (excl. VAT and carriage charges). Theissue can also be obtained as part of a sub-scription to the volumes of 2002, 22 and23, which is offered at a special rate of EUR146.- (excl. VAT and carriages charges) tomembers of the IES ordering directly fromSpringer-Verlag in Vienna, Austria.

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EPR of Free Radicals in Solids.Trends in Methods andApplicationsedited by Anders Lund and MasaruShiotaniPrice: 148.00 EUR / 145.00 USD / 93.00 GBP(Hardbound)Publication date: May 2003Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers606 pages, ISBN 1-4020-1249-7

The purposes of this book are to presentmethods and applications of modern EPR forthe study of free radical processes in solids.The first part is concerned with trends inexperimental and theoretical methods. In thefirst chapter by A. Lund and W. Liu con-tinuous wave (CW) EPR and ENDORmethods for studies of radical structure insingle crystals and powders are reviewed.Most of the following seven chapters giveaccounts of novel developments that so farare only available in the journal literature.The chapter by M. Brustolon and A. Barbondescribes the different pulsed techniques asapplied to radicals and spin probes in solidmatrices. Methods to extract dynamical pa-rameters from CW and pulsed EPR are sum-marized in the chapter by N. P. Benetis,which also contains an account of relaxationphenomena. The chapter by M. Shiotani andK. Komaguchi deals with quantum effectsin isotopically labelled radicals, which areespecially manifested in high resolution EPRat low temperature. The theoretical inter-pretation of measured parameters, i.e. the g-and hyperfine coupling tensors in terms ofelectronic properties is treated in two chap-

ters by R. J. Boyd and his coworkers, and byM. Kaupp. The trend is towards ab initioand density functional methods even for thebiological systems. The new experimentalmethods to determine accurate g-tensors withhigh-field EPR have been reviewed elsewherebut the modern theoretical treatment de-scribed here is probably less well known.Single crystal measurement is the moststraightforward but not always applicablemethod for complex systems, where oftenonly powder spectra can be obtained. Forthese systems analysis by simulation tech-niques based on exact diagonalization arebeginning to replace the previously used per-turbation methods, as described in the chap-ter by G. R. Hanson and coworkers. Fur-thermore, myon spin resonance provides newmeans to considerably lower the detectionlimit in heterogeneous systems as describedin a chapter by C. J. Rhodes.

In terms of applications there is a trendboth towards simplification by using matrixisolation in frozen noble gas matrices withaccompanying increase of resolution as il-lustrated in two chapters and towards stud-ies of complex systems treated in the chap-ters by T. Takui and his coworkers, M.Baumgarten and A. Kawamori. In the formercase H. Kunttu and J. Eloranta give an over-view the matrix isolation technique for stud-ies of atoms embedded in solid rare gasesand V. Feldman presents recent developmentin the EPR studies of reactive intermediatesfrom irradiation of moderately large organicmolecules using matrix isolation. In the lat-ter case two chapters address the issue ofhigh-spin systems, the one by M. Baum-garten in organic systems, the other by T.

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HFSP, NIH and the Dreyfus Foundation are funding apair of research projects at Princeton University, whichsupports the application of EPR spectroscopy to under-standing fundamental questions in biological chemistry andmaterials science. Applications for a postdoctoral positionare invited for an EPR spectroscopist with experience inpulsed EPR methods and data analysis. This person willjoin a team of biochemists and materials chemists in theChemistry Department under the supervision of CharlesDismukes.Projects:I Distance Measurements in Proteins using ELDOR and

Double Quantum Coherence ESR. This project aimsto advance knowledge of the structure of biomoleculeswhere XRD is not available. Applications to multi-sub-unit proteins, photosynthetic reaction centers and otherbiological materials.

II The Structure and Function of Enzymes and InorganicMaterials using Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance(ENDOR) and 2D-Hyperfine Sublevel CorrelationSpectroscopy (HYSCORE). To determine the electronicand magnetic environments surrounding the nuclei incoordination complexes and enzymes which determinetheir catalytic properties.

III Functional Dynamics of Proteins and Material by TimeResolved FT-ESR. To study transient structural changesin the photochemistry of photosynthetic reaction cen-ters and inorganic materials related to catalysis and so-lar energy conversion and internal dynamics with pro-teins.

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE,UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Two positions are available immediately for postdoctoralresearch associates.

Position 1: Measurement of Interspin Distances viaRelaxation Times.

The goal of the project is to use electron spin relaxationtimes to measure interspin distances and as probes of oxy-gen concentration. As part of these projects we are studyingrelaxation times for a range of samples under various con-ditions and as a function of microwave frequency to under-stand the mechanisms of relaxation and factors that influ-ence the relaxation rates. Relaxation times are then used tomeasure interspin distances in biological molecules. Thework is funded by the National Institutes of Health

Position 2: EPR at 250 MHz.EPR spectroscopy at 250 MHz is being developed for in

vivo spectroscopy and imaging. In this project we are devel-oping rapid scan and spin echo methods for imaging at 250MHz. The project involves technique development andcomparison of methods to optimize signal-to-noise. Thework is funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Job Requirements: Ph.D. in Chemistry or related field.Experience with EPR is required. Experience with pulsedEPR is preferred.

For further information please contact:Professors Sandra or Gareth [email protected] or [email protected] of Chemistry and Biochemistry,University of DenverDenver, CO 80208phone: 303-871-3102

Oxford helium cryostats) and major research resources inthe Princeton Materials Institute and the Department ofChemistry. PhD applicants are invited with training inphysics or chemistry. Send your CV, list of publicationsand names and contact information for three referees whohave first hand knowledge of your work to Ms. LynnMendenko ([email protected]), Princeton Univer-sity, Hoyt Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Princeton,NJ, USA 08544. Posting Date: September 30, 2003. Afurther description of the criteria for selection, benefits,and the project can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/Siteware/Administration.shtml.Research Group links:

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POSTDOCTORIAL POSITIONA postdoctoral position is presently avail-

able in the physics department of the Uni-versity of Dortmund for the study of me-talloproteins with optically detected EPRtechniques. In this project, we use advancedoptical/microwave double resonance tech-niques to investigate the electronic structureof the metal ion and its ligands.

The successful candidate should have ex-perience in EPR spectroscopy and/or laserspectroscopy. He/she is expected to furtherdevelop the existing instrumental basis aswell as the methodology and apply them tothe investigation of biologically relevantsamples.

The University of Dortmund is an equalopportunity employer. Preference will begiven to women and candidates with dis-abilities.

Please contact: Dieter [email protected] Physik,Universität DortmundD-44221 Dortmund, Germanyphone: (+49 231) 755 3512,(+49 231) 755 3652http://e3.physik.uni-dortmund.de

University of IllinoisBox 18-6 CLSL, 600 S. MathewaUrbana, IL 61801 USAphone: 217-333-2553fax: 217-244-3186

Please contact: Dr. Carmen M. [email protected], 3100Ricketts Point Rd, APG, MD 21010phone: 410-436-4454

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POSTDOCTORIAL POSITION:PULSED EPR OF METALLOPROTEINS ATUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

An NIH-funded postdoctoral position isavailable in the Illinois EPR Research Cen-ter at the University of Illinois (Urbana,USA) for research work in pulsed EPR andENDOR spectroscopy of metalloproteins.There is a focus on ESEEM theory and onstructure-function relationships in Rieskeand related proteins.

Expected education: PhD or equivalent ina discipline such as chemistry, biochemistry,molecular and cellular biology, physics, or bio-physics. Background should include (1) ex-perimental and/or theoretical magnetic reso-nance (preferably pulsed) and/or (2) experi-ence with protein preparations and analysis.

Interested individuals should contact Prof.R. L. Belford ([email protected]). The suc-cessful candidate will report directly to Dr.S. I. Dikanov ([email protected]) and maycollaborate with other faculty groups. Salarywill be comparable to the usual NIH post-doctoral scale. The University of Illinois isan equal-opportunity employer.

Please contact: Prof. R. Linn BelfordIllinois EPR Research Center,Department of Chemistry,

POSTDOCTORIAL POSITION IN PRIONRESEARCH AT UC SANTA CRUZ

Recent results suggest that the prionprotein’s normal function is related to itsability to bind copper. Through a widelycollaborative effort, the Millhauser lab hasdetermined the features of the copper sitesand is now moving on to examine potentialfunction and how function may be lost inprion diseases. Current work has made ex-tensive use of EPR, protein expression andprotein synthesis. Although EPR, both CWand pulsed, will be key for continued work,the research will expand by moving intocellular assays, proteomics and perhapstransgenic experiments. The Millhauser labis looking for an enthusiastic, recent PhDwho is comfortable with EPR and inter-ested in learning new biophysical and bio-logical techniques.

Please contact: Prof. Glenn L. [email protected] of Chemistry &Biochemistry, UC Santa CruzSanta Cruz, CA 95064phone: 831 459 2176fax: 831 459 2935http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/millhauser_g.html

JUNIOR NMR SPECTROSCOPIST NEEDED –USAMRICD

A junior NMR spectroscopist is needed atthe U.S. Army Medical Research Instituteof Chemical Defense (USAMRICD), Aber-deen Proving Ground, MD. Position is onlyopen to U.S. citizens. Qualified candidatemust have a strong background in NMRspectroscopy.

The successful candidate will provide guid-ance on the operation of a Varian 600 MHzINOVA NMR and will obtain liquid andsolid-state NMR spectra to aid principal in-vestigators in studying chemical warfare(CW) agents and pharmacological counter-measures for CW agents. As NMR adminis-trator for the Institute, the candidate will beresponsible for maintaining and trouble-shooting the instrument, user training, andmanaging the instrument in areas of bio-chemistry, organic, inorganic, and proteinchemistry.

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS IN CHEMISTRYAVAILABLE AT THE UNIVERSITY OFILLINOIS IN URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Predoctoral Graduate Scholarships areavailable for highly qualified new applicantsto the PhD program in the University ofIllinois Department of Chemistry. Specialtyareas in this department are Physical, Ana-lytical, Organic, and Inorganic Chemistryas well as Materials Chemistry, ChemicalBiology, and Chemical Physics. Magneticresonance is one of the traditional strengthsof our department.

These Scholarships carry excellent full-yearstipends and exemption from tuition andmost fees. Graduate Scholars are guaranteedcontinued financial support until comple-tion of the PhD degree as long as satisfac-tory progress toward the degree is main-tained.

Applicants whose native language is notEnglish should take the TSE as well asTOEFL and GRE tests. I can provide infor-mation and application forms if you sendme an e-mail.

Please contact: Prof. R. Linn [email protected] of Chemistry,University of IllinoisBox 18-6 CLSL, 600 S. MathewaUrbana, IL 61801 USAphone: 217-333-2553fax: 217-244-3186

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A wide assortment of special 15N- and/or2H-containing spin probes is available atmoderate prices.

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FOR SALE – NMR MAGNETOMETERSentec Model 1001, including 3 standard

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DO YOU NEED HELP IN DESIGN ANDCONSTRUCTION OF EPR ELECTRONICS?

The University of Denver can supply elec-tronic design and construction services forEPR applications. Low-noise pulse amplifi-ers, low-noise 100 kHz preamplifiers, box-car integrators, and pulse timing systems areavailable.

We also supply a conversion kit to convertVarian field control units to voltage-con-trolled scan operation.

A 6 digit 1 ppm frequency counter is avail-able in X-band, C-band, S-band, L-band, orMegahertz versions.

Complete microwave/RF bridges from150 MHz to L-band, S-band, or C-band areavailable from designs previously built andtested at the University of Denver.

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AVAILABLE: USED VARIAN EPREQUIPMENT1 Two Varian E-3’s are now being refur-

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3 Varian TM cavity with flat cell holdersand flat cells.

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