1912 - 1997
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 281,152 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, 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.
1930 - Present
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 169
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 170
1903 - 1960
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 171
1931 - 2021
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 172
1908 - 1995
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 173
1894 - 1984
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 174
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 175
1922 - 2020
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 176
1931 - 2016
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 177
1915 - 2015
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 178
1905 - 1989
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 179
1620 - 1684
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 180
1915 - 1990
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 181
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.
1912 - 2000
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 27
1912 - 1994
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 28
1912 - 1948
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 29
1912 - 2010
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 30
1912 - 1994
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 31
1912 - 1996
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 32
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 33
1912 - 1942
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 34
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 35
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 36
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 37
1912 - 1988
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 38
1912 - 2009
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 39
1907 - 1997
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 26
1931 - 1997
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 27
1907 - 1997
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 28
1907 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 29
1918 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 30
1904 - 1997
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 31
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 32
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 33
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 34
1910 - 1997
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 35
1929 - 1997
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 36
1915 - 1997
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 37
1955 - 1997
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 38
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).
1890 - 1967
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 767
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 768
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 769
1921 - 1995
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 770
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 771
1926 - 2003
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 772
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 773
1975 - Present
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 774
1933 - Present
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 775
1926 - 1968
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 776
1939 - 2013
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 777
1890 - 1977
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 778
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 779
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).
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 23
1926 - 2013
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 24
1753 - 1814
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 25
1917 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 26
1930 - Present
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 27
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 28
1912 - 1997
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 29
1922 - 2020
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 30
1931 - 2016
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 31
1915 - 2015
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 32
1915 - 1990
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 33
1915 - 2011
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 34
1911 - 2008
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 35