Edward Mills Purcell

Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquids and in solids. 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.

Notable works: Electricity and Magnetism Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Oersted Medal, National Medal of Science, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Karl G. Jansky Lectureship Education: Harvard University, Purdue University

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