Metals 1 Quantum Mechanics f Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance f Wave FunctionsFor Li and Na metals we investigated theoretically the pressure dependence of the atomic spin susceptibility xA, the probability density PF and the Knight shift K, = (8x/3)xAPF by the spin polarized version of the scalar relativistic augmented plane wave method. The calculations were performed within the volume range V, 2 V 2 0.5 Vo, where Vo is the volume at 1 bar. Recently it was found experimentally by Bertani et al. that a) the slopes of the curves K, = Ks( V ) have different signs for lithium and sodium metals and b) for high pressures K,(V) goes through a minimum for Na metal. We found in the present investigation that this behavior can be understood in terms of a competition between the pressure dependence of xA and PF for these metals.