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Edward Mills Purcell was born on 30 August, 1912 in Taylorville, Illinois, United States, is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. Discover Edward Mills Purcell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 30 August, 1912
Birthday 30 August
Birthplace Taylorville, Illinois, United States
Date of death 1997
Died Place Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality United States

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1912

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.

Born and raised in Taylorville, Illinois, Purcell received his BSEE in electrical engineering from Purdue University, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University.

He was a member of the Alpha Xi chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity while at Purdue.

After spending the years of World War II working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory on the development of microwave radar, Purcell returned to Harvard to do research.

1946

In December 1946, he discovered nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with his colleagues Robert Pound and Henry Torrey.

NMR provides scientists with an elegant and precise way of determining chemical structure and properties of materials, and is widely used in physics and chemistry.

It also is the basis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), one of the most important medical advances of the 20th century.

1952

For his discovery of NMR, Purcell shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in physics with Felix Bloch of Stanford University.

Purcell also made contributions to astronomy as the first to detect radio emissions from neutral galactic hydrogen (the famous 21 cm line due to hyperfine splitting), affording the first views of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.

This observation helped launch the field of radio astronomy, and measurements of the 21 cm line are still an important technique in modern astronomy.

He has also made seminal contributions to solid state physics, with studies of spin-echo relaxation, nuclear magnetic relaxation, and negative spin temperature (important in the development of the laser).

With Norman F. Ramsey, he was the first to question the CP symmetry of particle physics.

Purcell was the recipient of many awards for his scientific, educational, and civic work.

He served as science advisor to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

He was president of the American Physical Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1965

The 1965 edition, now freely available due to a condition of the federal grant, was originally published as a volume of the Berkeley Physics Course.

The book is also in print as a commercial third edition, as Purcell and Morin.

Purcell is also remembered by biologists for his famous lecture "Life at Low Reynolds Number", in which he explained forces and effects dominating in limiting flow regimes (often at the micro scale).

He also emphasized the time-reversibility of low Reynolds number flows with a principle referred to as the Scallop theorem.

1979

He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1979, and the Jansky Lectureship before the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Purcell was also inducted into his Fraternity's (Phi Kappa Sigma) Hall of Fame as the first Phi Kap ever to receive a Nobel Prize.

Purcell was the author of the innovative introductory text Electricity and Magnetism.

The book, a Sputnik-era project funded by an NSF grant, was influential for its use of relativity in the presentation of the subject at this level.

1997

Purcell died on March 7, 1997, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 84.