Edward Mills Purcell

Edward Mills Purcell
Purcell in 1952
Born	(1912-08-30)30 August 1912 Taylorville, Illinois, United States
Died	7 March 1997(1997-03-07) (aged 84) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Alma mater	Purdue University (BSEE) Harvard University (M.A.) Harvard University (Ph.D)
Known for	Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy 21 cm line Microswimmer Scallop theorem Purcell effect Smith–Purcell effect
Awards	Nobel Prize for Physics (1952) Oersted Medal (1967) National Medal of Science (1979) Max Delbruck Prize (1984) Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1988)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Harvard University MIT
Thesis	The Focusing of Charged Particles by a Spherical Condenser (1938)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Bainbridge
Other academic advisors	John Van Vleck
Doctoral students	George Benedek George Pake Charles Pence Slichter
Other notable students	Nicolaas Bloembergen Julie Fouquet

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] Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Friends and colleagues knew him as Ed Purcell.