Edward Mills Purcell
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1952for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewithTogether with: Felix Bloch
- Citizenship
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United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 8/30/1912
- place of birth
- Taylorville
- date of death
- 3/7/1997
- place of death
- Cambridge
- Lived
- 84 years
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- member of
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- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1954
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1951
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 6/29/1989
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- American Philosophical Society
- doctoral student
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- George Benedek
- Walter L. Brown
- Michaēl D. Papagiannēs
- Nicolaas Bloembergen
- Charles Pence Slichter
- George Pake
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- nuclear physicist
- educated at
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- Harvard University
- Purdue University
- notable work
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- Electricity and Magnetism
- field of work
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- nuclear physics
- employer
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- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology