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Purcell, Edward Mills was born on August 30, 1912 in Taylorville, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward A. and Mary Elizabeth (Mills) Purcell.
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The sequence of topics covered include: electrostatics; steady currents; magnetic field; electromagnetic induction; and electric and magnetic polarization in matter. Taking a nontraditional approach, students focus on fundamental questions from different frames of reference. Each chapter has figures and problems to apply concepts studied.
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Purcell, Edward Mills was born on August 30, 1912 in Taylorville, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward A. and Mary Elizabeth (Mills) Purcell.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1933. Doctor Engineering (honorary), Purdue University, 1953. International Exchange student, Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1933—1934.
AM, Harvard University, 1935. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1938.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (Nuclear magnetic resonance) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Born and raised in Taylorville, Illinois, Purcell received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in electrical engineering from Purdue University, followed by his Master of Arts After spending the years of World World War II working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory on the development of microwave radar, Purcell returned to Harvard to do research. Nuclear magnetic resonance provides scientists with an elegant and precise way of determining chemical structure and properties of materials, and is widely used in physics and chemistry.
lieutenant also is the basis of magnetic resonance imaging (Medical Research Institute), one of the most important medical advances of the 20th century.
Foreign his discovery of Nuclear magnetic resonance, Purcell shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in physics with Felix Bloch of Stanford University. Purcell also made contributions to astronomy as the first to detect radio emissions from neutral galactic hydrogen (the famous 21 cm line due to hyperfine splitting), affording the first views of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
This observation helped launch the field of radio astronomy, and measurements of the 21 cm line are still an important technique in modern astronomy. He has also made other seminal contributions to solid state physics, with studies of spin-echo relaxation, nuclear magnetic relaxation, and negative spin temperature (important in the development of the laser).
With Norman F. Ramsey, he was the first to question the Communist Party symmetry of particle physics.
Purcell was the recipient of many awards for his scientific, educational, and civic work. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1979, and the Jansky Lectureship before the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Purcell was the author of the innovative introductory text Electricity and Magnetism.
The book, a Sputnik-era project funded by an National Science Foundation grant, was influential for its use of relativity in the presentation of the subject at this level
The 1965 edition, now freely available due to a condition of the federal grant, was originally published as a volume of the Berkeley Physics Course. Half a century later, the book is also in print as a commercial third edition, as Purcell and Morin.
Purcell is also remembered by biologists for his famous lecture "Life at Low Reynolds Number", in which he explained a principle referred to as the Scallop theorem.
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President's Science advisory committee, 1957—1960, 1962—1965. Member of National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society (foreign), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society, American Philosophical Society.
Married Beth C. Busser, January 22, 1937. Children: Dennis W., Frank B.