The ESR Group was
founded in 1968 as a forum within the Chemical Society for scientists to share, disseminate and promote knowledge
about electron spin resonance. In 1980 the Chemical
Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry, together with the Faraday Society
and the Society for Analytical Chemistry were amalgamated
to become the Royal Society of Chemistry, so that we became a special interest
group of the RSC. We
are also associated with the
European
Federation of EPR Groups.
The main aim of the ESR Group is to promote innovation, share and advance knowledge, and to encourage applications of ESR in chemistry and a broad range of sciences and their applications. These aims are achieved with the aid of an
annual international meeting, often with subsequent publication of research
presented in a respected international journal. At the meetings, we organise
prizes to highlight excellence in magnetic resonance research (the
Bruker Prize and Lecture) and to encourage promising
young scientists starting in their careers (the
JEOL Prize and JEOL Student Lectures).
