Jozef Kowalewski is professor emeritus of Physical Chemistry, at the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden. Lena Mäler is professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden.
""This book by Kowalewski and Maeler provides an outstanding overview of nuclear spin relaxation. The authors successfully guide the reader towards a clear understanding of the underlying physics, which is described using an accessible formalism, and at the same time providing a rigorous treatment. The reader is gradually introduced to the more complex theories, to the understanding of standard and advanced NMR experiments, and is updated on the very recent applications. This book is highly recommended as a reference book and a textbook to learn both the fundamentals and the more advanced aspects of the field."" —Claudio Luchinat, CERM, University of Florence Praise for the first edition: ""…Three areas of theory, experiment, and applications are addressed in this monograph. …The applications throughout the book are often chosen from biochemistry, although there are examples of relaxation in 'small' organic molecules. … I found the book very readable. I am quite sure that NMR spectroscopists and chemists … will find it a particularly handy reference … ."" —Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 128, No. 32, 2006