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Edward Mills Purcell

Born on August 30, 1912

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Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquids and in solids.

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