The destinies of Fu Chun Yu remain, for me, a complete mystery, except for what Warren wrote about their friendship in ref. With what chemical shifts mean today, if he just said "hello, I am here", he would have been invited as a honored guest to all of them. There were ever more numerous NMR conferences being held all around and nobody knew he lived close by. What strikes me most in this story is the fact that for nearly one third of his life, Warren just went incognito. So, since two years, one of the fathers of chemical shifts rests in peace in Provence. Evidently, Judith made a slight error in the date, but that might happen if the death occurred at the end of the year. The Mayor of Goudargues, E.Taulelle, confirmed to me in a letter dated July 2, 2007, that "Monsieur Proctor Warren died in 2005 and is buried in Goussargues". I have managed to track the tiny French village Judith mentions its spelling is Goussargues, and it is a fraction of Goudargues, located in Département du Gard, close to Verfuil. The 'astrophysics' paper Judith mentions must have been ref since that appears to be the only article he published in Scientific American (alas, it carries no affiliation). Rather, he writes that he worked at University of Helsinky and then the Technical University of Denmark, and retired in 1986. I was so far unable to substantiate his association with Uni Grenoble. Judith's comment that he "moved to Europe in 1974" is probably not precise since Warren himself indicates 1975 as the year he left Varian and specifies that he was the Managing Director of the Zug facility (the company is not very good at digging this out of their records). Later, he must have returned to Palo Alto. While at Saclay, he must have been still on Varian payroll (or a leave) because thereafter we find him at the Varian facility in Zug, Switzerland (last paper with that affiliation is of 1967). He than moved overseas, working with Anatol Abragam in Saclay, France, on the concept of spin temperature, a topic which captured his fancy. That must be when he made friends with Jim Shoolery, the man who fashioned NMR into a tool for chemists. Somewhere at that point he was hired by Varian Associates in Palo Alto. Before concluding a contract with them, however, he went through University of Washington, working on interactions between ultrasound and spin systems. Combining Judith's hints with affiliations reported in Warren's papers, I was able to stitch together the following picture:Īfter the startup at Felix Bloch's laboratory with F.C.Yu and M.Packard, Warren got in contact with University of Basel (Switzerland). In a subsequent e-mail she added: "Warren and his wife were our good friends". I am not certain of the other posts he had on the continent, but he died in 2006 in Goussarges, France.". I believe that was his home when his article on astrophysics was published as the lead article in Scientific American. She wrote: "Warren moved to Europe about 1974, teaching first at University of Grenoble. Last April, as a reaction to the memo and to my comments, I have received an e-mail from Judith Shoolery, the wife of James N.Shoolery and the author of Edward Teller Memoirs. The discovery itself is vividly captured in the now public Warren's memo. Yet when it comes to the three discoverers of chemical shifts, W.G.Proctor, F.C.Yu and W.C.Dickinson, the available bigraphical knowledge is very scarce and I wonder how many of us have ever met any of them at a meeting (not me, and I was sticking around for over 40 years).ĭuring this year emerged a few pieces of info about Warren George Proctor who, at the time of the discovery, worked together with Fu Chun Yu at Felix Bloch's laboratory at Stanford University. Quite correctly, we also honor and invite to meetings nearly everybody who has achieved anything worth honoring. In many cases we know a lot of biographical details about minor players in the fascinating story of nuclear magnetic resonance. Since some time I am kind of obsessed by an apparent paradox.
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