Was there an nmr revolution in chemistry, and what did it consist of? This paper will answer the first question in the affirmative. The second question is more interesting. I shall contend that, notwithstanding conventional wisdom, the nmr revolution did not add just one more analytical technique to the existing ones (UV-visible and vibrational spectroscopies, mass spectrometry) feeding run-of-the-mill, paradigmatic chemistry. Nmr caused a revolution from altogether different quarters. It ushered in many a discovery in chemistry. It opened up new avenues of research.1 Yet more importantly, it changed the thinking of chemists. The title of this piece borrows deliberately from the title of Thomas S.Kuhn’s classic.
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