Electricity and Magnetism

Edward M. Purcell

1912–1997 · American physicist

• Nobel laureate
• National Medal of Science
• Professor at Harvard
• Professor at MIT

Profession

Physicist, Professor

Worked at

Harvard, MIT

Studied at

Harvard, Purdue University

Studied under

Henry DeWolf Smyth, Kenneth Bainbridge

Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics (1952), National Medal of Science (1979), Oersted Medal (1967), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1989), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1953), Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (1976), Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics (1984), Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1988)

Shared a Nobel for nuclear magnetic resonance, the basis of MRI.

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