Edward Mills Purcell

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American physicist

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 has become widely used to study the... Wikipedia

Born: August 30, 1912, Taylorville, IL

Died: March 7, 1997 (age 84 years), Cambridge, MA

Books: Electricity and Magnetism, Berkeley Physics Course: Electricity and Magnetism, Elektrizität und Magnetismus, and more

Education: Harvard University, Purdue University, and Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Doctoral students: George Benedek; George Pake; Charles Pence Slichter

Other academic advisors: John Van Vleck

Other notable students: Nicolaas Bloembergen; Julie Fouquet