American physicist who in December 1945 at Harvard University, working independently of Felix Bloch, first detected nuclear magnetic resonance absorption in solid paraffin. He shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bloch, and their parallel discoveries founded NMR spectroscopy as an analytical technique.
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Independently detected NMR absorption in solid paraffin at Harvard in December 1945.
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Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912, March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquids and in solids.
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