| E. M. Purcell  AKA Edward Mills Purcell
Born: 30-Aug-1912
Birthplace: Taylorville, IL
Died: 7-Mar-1997
Location of death: Cambridge, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Nuclear magnetic resonance Father: Edward A. Purcell
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Mills
Wife: Beth C. Busser (m. 1937, two sons)
Son: Dennis
Son: Frank
University: BSEE, Purdue University (1933)
University: MA, Harvard University
University: Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe (one year)
University: PhD Physics, Harvard University (1938)
Scholar: Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (WWII)
Professor: Harvard University (1949-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1952 (with Felix Bloch)
Oersted Medal 1967
National Medal of Science 1979
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society President
National Academy of Sciences
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Author of books:
Electricity and Magnetism (1963, physics)
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