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Also Known As Edward Mills Purcell
Born August 30, 1912 • Illinois
Died March 7, 1997 (aged 84) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1979) • Nobel Prize (1952)
Subjects Of Study 21-centimeter radiation • nuclear magnetic resonance
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