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Edward Mills Purcell
Full Name of the recipient | Edward Mills Purcell |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1952 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Felix Bloch (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | Taylorville, IL, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 30 August 1912 |
Age at the time of Award | 39 years |
Place of Death | Cambridge, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 7 March 1997 |