16-05 2022 20:21
wrote:
Ray Freeman was the proverbial 'gentleman and a scholar', a kind and gentle man who was a giant in the NMR field and one of my heroes. I was privileged to get to know him when I was a postdoc in Oxford and he was there in physical chemistry. I have two main memories of many. First was hiking in the Alps with (among others) him and his daughter Dom at a meeting in Sienna, and hearing "spin echo" echoed back off the mountains. Second was at a meeting in Israel one July, when he wryly observed at a talk that American Independence Day was observed in Great Britain also, but as Thanksgiving Day! Ray's passing is so sad, and he will be much and forever missed. All of Ray's family have my most sincere condolences. There are many good memories.
16-05 2022 20:21
wrote:
Ray Freeman was the proverbial 'gentleman and a scholar', a kind and gentle man who was a giant in the NMR field and one of my heroes. I was privileged to get to know him when I was a postdoc in Oxford and he was there in physical chemistry. I have two main memories of many. First was hiking in the Alps with (among others) him and his daughter Dom at a meeting in Sienna, and hearing "spin echo" echoed back off the mountains. Second was at a meeting in Israel one July, when he wryly observed at a talk that American Independence Day was observed in Great Britain also, but as Thanksgiving Day! Ray's passing is so sad, and he will be much and forever missed. All of Ray's family have my most sincere condolences. There are many good memories.
