Edward Mills Purcell - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1952
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Edward Mills Purcell

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1952
for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith
Together with: Felix Bloch
Citizenship
United States 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
member of
  • 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
doctoral student
  • George Benedek
  • Walter L. Brown
  • Michaēl D. Papagiannēs
  • Nicolaas Bloembergen
  • Charles Pence Slichter
  • George Pake
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
educated at
  • Harvard University
  • Purdue University
notable work
  • Electricity and Magnetism
field of work
  • nuclear physics
employer
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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