Edward Mills Purcell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Mills Purcell

American physicist

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1912

Place of Birth: Taylorville, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1997

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.