The purpose of this contribution is to give an overview of the activities of the NMR program of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. Several scientists who contributed to start this research program moved from the University of Lausanne to the United States in August 1994. Part of this group will move back to Lausanne in September 1996. This contribution focuses on the two-year time-span that the group was active in the USA.