biography
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Purcell, E(dward) M(ills)
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pronunciation:
[persel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–97)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Taylorville, Illinois, USA. He studied at Purdue, Karlsruhe, and Harvard universities, worked on microwave radar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during World War 2, and was appointed professor of physics at Harvard (1949). He developed nuclear magnetic resonance methods of analysis which have become a major tool in chemistry, and was the first to detect the interstellar microwave radiation predicted by van de Hulst. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952 for his work on the magnetic moments of atomic nuclei. |
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