The National Magnetic Resonance Society (NMRS),
    India mourns and regret to announce the passing of
Prof. Anil Kumar     on November 9, 2024, at the age of 83 after a brief
    illness at Bangalore.

Prof. Anil Kumar obtained his Master’s degree from Agra University in the year 1961 and PhD degree in 1969 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, under the supervision of Prof. B.D.N. Rao. He did his Post-doctoral research in the United States at the Georgia Institute of Technology with Prof. Sydney Gordon and at the University of North Carolina with Prof. Charles Johnson. He then moved to the laboratory of Prof. R.R. Ernst at ETH, Zurich where he performed the first 2D NMR experiment in liquids and also the first 2D Fourier imaging experiment. He was also the first one to observe transient oscillations in cross-polarization dynamics in solids. Anil Kumar returned to India and joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a Faculty member in January 1977. Here he started to work on further developments in two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. He returned to Zurich for the academic year 1979-80, in a joint project of Prof. Ernst and Prof. Wuthrich. During this period, he was the first one to apply the two-dimensional Nuclear Overhauser Effect experiment, popularly known as NOESY in a protein, which opened the field for the determination of three-dimensional structures of biomolecules in solution by NMR. In his laboratory in India, he continued to explore challenging problems such as the study of cross-correlations in relaxation. He has major contributions in the field of NMR quantum information processing and NMR quantum computing and has pioneered several experimental aspects. Additionally, Prof. Anil Kumar dedicated himself to popularizing the power of the modern NMR methodology and has been largely responsible for the current wide-spread use of the technique in India. Prof. Anil Kumar bagged many awards in his life time and was a fellow of all the 3 science academies of India namely, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) and National Academy of Sciences (NASI) and a fellow of ISMAR.