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Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. [2]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. Main article: Child prodigy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. John von Neumann as a child In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a ...
Harold Irving "Doc" Ewen (March 5, 1922 – October 8, 2015) was an American physicist, radio astronomer, and business executive. He served in the United States Navy in World War II as a second lieutenant. As a graduate student under Edward M. Purcell, he was the first to detect the galactic 21-cm hydrogen line.
Purcell and his wife Frances had six children, four of whom died in infancy. His wife, as well as his son Edward (1689–1740) and daughter Frances, survived him. [ 15 ] His wife Frances died in 1706, having published a number of her husband's works, including the now-famous collection called Orpheus Britannicus , [ 39 ] in two volumes, printed ...
Felix Bloch (/ b l ɒ k /; German:; 23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. [1] He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements."
Edward Henry Purcell (died 1765), English organist, printer, and music publisher Edward Mills Purcell (1912–1997), American physicist, Nobel Prize winner Edward Purcell (musician) (1689–1740), English composer
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Ernest O. Lawrence (M.A. Physics 1923), 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics [1] Walter Brattain (PhD Physics 1929), 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics [2] Melvin Calvin (PhD Chemistry 1935), 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [3] Norman Borlaug (B.S. Forestry 1937, M.S. 1939 Plant Pathology, PhD 1942 Plant Pathology), 1970 Nobel Peace Prize [4]