The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
Edward Mills Purcell Quotes
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
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| Birth: | 30th August, 1912 |
| Death: | 7th March, 1997 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Physicist |
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Edward Mills Purcell was born in Taylorville, Illinois, USA. He 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 molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. He received his BSEE in electrical engineering from Purdue University, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. He served as science advisor to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the author of the innovative introductory text Electricity and Magnetism.
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