Edward Mills Purcell
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Friends and colleagues knew him as Ed Purcell.
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- Born in
- Taylorville
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityPurdue University
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize🏆 Oersted Medal🏆 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Henry DeWolf Smyth🎓 Kenneth Bainbridge
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Nicolaas Bloembergen📖 Charles Pence Slichter
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1912
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Birth1997
Died
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