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Edward Mills Purcell

1912 - 1997

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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.Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Mills Purcell has received more than 283,839 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Mills Purcell is the 175th most popular physicist (up from 209th in 2019), the 773rd most popular biography from United States (up from 954th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Physicist.

Edward Mills Purcell was most famous for his work in astrophysics. He is best known for his discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is a remnant of the Big Bang.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edward Mills Purcell ranks 175 out of 717. Before him are Leon Cooper, Robert H. Goddard, Igor Kurchatov, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Hannes Alfvén, and Pyotr Kapitsa. After him are Arthur Ashkin, James Cronin, Charles H. Townes, Emilio Segrè, Edme Mariotte, and Robert Hofstadter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Edward Mills Purcell ranks 33. Before him are Konrad Emil Bloch, Robert Doisneau, Maria Mandl, Alois Brunner, Pierre Boulle, and Sergiu Celibidache. After him are Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, Minoru Yamasaki, Leonid Kantorovich, Juan Pujol García, and Karl Malden. Among people deceased in 1997, Edward Mills Purcell ranks 32. Before him are Fred Zinnemann, Aldo Rossi, Dora Maar, Burgess Meredith, Chaim Herzog, and Willem de Kooning. After him are Clyde Tombaugh, Otto Ernst Remer, Helenio Herrera, Zoltán Czibor, Shoichi Yokoi, and Dodi Fayed.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Mills Purcell ranks 773 out of 18,182. Before him are Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), Kamala Harris (1964), James B. Sumner (1887), Lana Turner (1921), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), and Richard Crenna (1926). After him are Tobey Maguire (1975), Quincy Jones (1933), Neal Cassady (1926), Ray Manzarek (1939), Groucho Marx (1890), and Martin Seligman (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edward Mills Purcell ranks 29. Before him are Steven Weinberg (1933), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Benjamin Thompson (1753), James Rainwater (1917), Leon Cooper (1930), and Robert H. Goddard (1882). After him are Arthur Ashkin (1922), James Cronin (1931), Charles H. Townes (1915), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), and John Archibald Wheeler (1911).

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