Edward M. Purcell
Edward M. Purcell
Edward Mills Purcellwas an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discoveryof nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonancehas become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 August 1912
CountryUnited States of America
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