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Edward Mills Purcell

American physicist (1912-1997) · United States · Scientists · Died at 84

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Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery 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.

A life in dates

1997Died7 March 19971989Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1988Beatrice M. Tinsley PrizeAward1984Max Delbrück Prize in Biological PhysicsAward1979National Medal of ScienceAward1976Karl G. Jansky LectureshipAward1967Oersted MedalAward1953Richtmyer Memorial Lecture AwardAward1952Nobel Prize in PhysicsAward1912Born30 August 1912

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Horn antenna used by Harold I. Ewen and Edward M. Purcell in the Lyman Laboratory of Physics at Harvard University in 1951 for the first detection of radio radiation from nuclear atomic hydrogen gas in the Milky Way at a wavelength of 21 cm. Now at National Radio Astronomy Observatory.[1]Horn antenna used by Harold I. Ewen and Edward M. Purcell in the Lyman Laboratory of Physics at Harvard University in 1951 for the first detection of radio radiation from nuclear atomic hydrogen gas in the Milky Way at a wavelength of 21 cm. Now at National Radio Astronomy Observatory.[1]

Awards

Foreign Member of the Royal Society1989
Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize1988
Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics1984
National Medal of Science1979
Karl G. Jansky Lectureship1976
Oersted Medal1967
Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award1953
Nobel Prize in Physics1952
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

About this person

Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery 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.

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1997 · aged 84

In common with Edward

Charles H. TownesBoth received Karl G. Jansky LectureshipFreeman DysonBoth received Oersted MedalGeorge SmootBoth received Oersted MedalJocelyn Bell BurnellBoth received Karl G. Jansky LectureshipJohn HopfieldBoth received Max Delbrück Prize in Biological PhysicsArnold SommerfeldBoth received Oersted Medal

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