THE NEW UNITED-STATES NATIONAL HIGH MAGNETIC-FIELD LABORATORY

An outline is given of the plans for the new US. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory to be built in Florida and of the NMR facilities at the Laboratory. In March, 1991, the National Science Foundation released a grant of $66M to a consortium of the University of Florida, Florida State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory to establish the new Laboratory. The State of Florida is providing $55M for a building and for 34 new academic and academic-related staff. The laboratory will be sited in Tallahassee, Florida, and pulsed fields will be provided in Los Alamos. The Laboratory will be a national user facility and will also have in-house research. Plans include 50T DC magnets powered by a 32 MW supply, 25T superconducting magnets and 1000T short-pulse flux compression magnets. Low temperature and high pressure facilities will be provided. NMR facilities will be provided for work in solid-state physics, high-resolution NMR for structural investigations in molecular biology, magnets for NMR microimaging and wide bore magnets for in vivo NMR imaging and spectroscopy. Initial high-resolution proton NMR facilities will be provided at 750 MHz, rising later.