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  1. Jun 29, 2022 · Explore genealogy for Edward Purcell born 1912 Taylorville, Christian, Illinois, United States died 1997 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States including parents + more in the free family tree community.

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    • August 30, 1912
    • Beth Cameron (Busser) Purcell
    • March 7, 1997
  2. May 23, 2018 · 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 ...

  3. 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. [2] Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and ...

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  5. Childhood & Early Life. E.M. Purcell was born on August 30, 1912 in Taylorville, Illinois, U.S. His parents, Edward A. Purcell and Mary Elisabeth Mills, were both natives of Illinois. He did his schooling in public schools in Taylorville and in Mattoon, Illinois and joined the ‘Purdue University’ in 1929. He received his BSEE in electrical ...

  6. EDWARD MILLS PURCELL. August 30, 1912–March7, 1997. BY ROBERT V. POUND. E DWARD MILLS PURCELL, Nobel laureate for physics in 1952, died on March 7, 1997, of respiratory failure at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had tried valiantly to regain his strength after suffering leg fractures in a fall in 1996, but recurring bacterial lung ...

  7. Edward M. Purcell was born on August 30, 1912, in Taylorville, Illinois, the older of two boys. His father, Edward A. Purcell, was manager of the local telephone exchange in Taylorville, and moved, when the boy Edward was fourteen years of age, to Matoon, Illinois, some 60 miles southeast to become general manager of the Illinois Southeastern Telephone Company, an independent regional company.

  8. Mar 12, 2011 · Edward Mills Purcell (figure 1) was born in Taylorville, a small town surrounded by farmland in central Illinois, about twenty-five miles southeast of Springfield. His father, Edward A. Purcell, was manager of the telephone exchange in Taylorville. When Edward was fourteen, the Purcell family moved to a nearby town, the slightly larger Mattoon.