It is remarkable that measurement of esoteric quantum properties (spin and magnetic moment) of nuclei led to a household word – nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Begun before World War II, the attempt to measure magnetic resonance was finally successful in 1946. Although this phenomenon was initially exploited by physicists and chemists to study matter at the molecular scale, it was not long after that the first well logging application was developed by Chevron in 1960. NMR, with its multitude of medical applications and visual diagnostic tools, enabled by ubiquitous high-powered computers and graphics algorithms, made its way into every day conversation – in a politically-correct version – as magnetic resonance imaging.
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Ellis, D.V., Singer, J.M. (2007). Nuclear Magnetic Logging. In: Ellis, D.V., Singer, J.M. (eds) Well Logging for Earth Scientists. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4602-5_16
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