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Name: Edward Mills Purcell
Birth Date: 1912
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Edward Mills Purcell
482 words, approx. 2 pages
Born in Taylorville, Illinois, Edward Purcell attended public schools near his hometown before enrolling at Purdue University in 1929; he received his B.A. in electrical engineering from the university in 1933. After spending a year in Germany as an...


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Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1952 for his detection of nuclear magnetic resonance. Sourced I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things...


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Purcell, E.M.
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(born Aug. 30, 1912, Taylorville, Ill., U.S.—died March 7, 1997, Cambridge, Mass.) American physicist who shared, with Felix Bloch of the United States, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952 for his independent discovery (1946) of nuclear magnetic...
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Edward Mills Purcell Summary
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1912- American physicist whose work led to the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (now known as magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI). Purcell was also one of the first scientists to detect the ubiquitous 21-cm radiation from neutral...
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Edward Mills Purcell Information
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Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Edward Mills Purcell, MRI pioneer
03/10/1997: 180 words, approx. 1 pages
Edward Mills Purcell, a Nobel laureate whose discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in 1945 yielded maps of distant galaxies and detailed medical images of the human body, died Friday. He was 84. Purcell, a Harvard University physicist emeritus, shared the 1952 Nobel Prize...
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The Washington Post
Nobel-Winning Physicist Edward Purcell Dies
03/09/1997: 1,655 words, approx. 6 pages
Edward M. Purcell, 84, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics for research that led to the widely used medical diagnostic technique of magnetic resonance imaging, died March 7 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Purcell, a longtime member of the Harvard...
 


 

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