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Edward Mills Purcell

Edward Mills Purcell
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

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.

30 August 1912

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