Edward Mills Purcell

About Edward Mills Purcell

Who is it?: Physicist
Birth Day: August 30, 1912
Birth Place: Taylorville, Illinois, USA, United States
Alma mater: Purdue University (BSEE) Harvard University (M.A.) Harvard University (Ph.D)
Known for: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Smith-Purcell effect 21 cm line Scallop theorem
Awards: Nobel Prize for Physics (1952) Oersted Medal (1967) National Medal of Science (1979) Max Delbruck Prize (1984) Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1988)
Fields: Physics
Institutions: Harvard University MIT
Doctoral advisor: Kenneth Bainbridge
Other academic advisors: John Van Vleck
Doctoral students: George Pake George Benedek Charles Pence Slichter
Other notable students: Nicolaas Bloembergen

Edward Mills Purcell

Edward Mills Purcell was born on August 30, 1912 in Taylorville, Illinois, USA, United States, is Physicist. Edward Mills Purcell was a well-known American physicist. He shared the ‘Nobel Prize’ for Physics in 1952 with Felix Bloch, a Swiss physicist working mainly in the United States. They were awarded the ‘Nobel Prize’ for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." Purcell is known in the science community for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) helps scientists determine the chemical structure and properties of materials with precision. NMR is also the basis of modern day magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used as a non-invasive diagnostic tool to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body. Purcell not only made significant contribution to physics but contributed to astronomy as well. He is also remembered by biologists for his famous lecture “Life at Low Reynolds Number” in which he explained a principle called the Scallop theorem. He was the first to question the CP symmetry of particle physics. Purcell received many awards during his lifetime for his scientific, educational, and civic work. He served as a science advisor to the U. S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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As per our current Database, Edward Mills Purcell has been died on March 7, 1997(1997-03-07) (aged 84)\nCambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born August 30, 1912 (Taylorville, Illinois, USA, United States)
Birthday August 30
Town/City Taylorville, Illinois, USA, United States
Nationality United States

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Biography/Timeline

1946

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

1965

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. 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. Half a century later, 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 a principle referred to as the Scallop theorem.

1979

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. 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.

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