The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952
Awarded on: 1952-11-06
"for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Edward Mills Purcell
Born: 1912-08-30 in Taylorville, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: Nobel prize winning American physicist
Biography
Edward Mills Purcell 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 (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.