Edward Mills Purcell
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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.[2] 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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Born | (1912-08-30)30 August 1912 Taylorville, Illinois, United States |
Died | 7 March 1997(1997-03-07) (aged 84) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
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Fields | Physics |
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Thesis | The Focusing of Charged Particles by a Spherical Condenser (1938) |
Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Bainbridge |
Other academic advisors | John Van Vleck |
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