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  2. Edward Mills Purcell - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Felix Bloch - Wikipedia

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    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."

  4. Henry Purcell - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of compositions by Henry Purcell - Wikipedia

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    Z 587, Incidental Music, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1693) Movement 1, Song, "There's not a swain" Z 588 , Incidental Music, Sir Anthony Love or The Rambling Lady (1692)

  6. List of orphans and foundlings - Wikipedia

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    Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics; Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine; James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics

  7. Electricity and Magnetism (book) - Wikipedia

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    Electricity and Magnetism is a standard textbook in electromagnetism originally written by Nobel laureate Edward Mills Purcell in 1963. [1] Along with David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics, this book is one of the most widely adopted undergraduate textbooks in electromagnetism. [2]

  8. Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary

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    The funeral of Queen Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) in Westminster Abbey was not until 5 March 1695. Purcell composed a setting of the sixth of the seven sentences of the Anglican Burial Service ("Thou Knowest Lord", Z. 58C) for the occasion, together with the March and Canzona, Z. 780. [1]

  9. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    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.