Edward Mills Purcell
American physicist
Died when: 84 years 189 days (1014 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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 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.
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