Born Taylorville, Illinois, USA, 30 August 1912
Died Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 7 March 1997
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Berg, H. C. and E. M. Purcell (1977). “Physics of Chemoreception.” Biophysical Journal 20: 193–219.
Bloembergen, N., E. M. Purcell, and R. V. Pound (1948). “Relaxation Effects in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Absorption.” Physical Review 73: 679–712. (Often referred to as BPP.)
Ewen, H. I. and E. M. Purcell (1951). “Observation of a Line in the Galactic Radio Spectrum: Radiation from Galactic Hydrogen at 1,420 Mc./sec.” Nature 168: 356–358.
Mattson, James and Merrill Simon (1996). “Edward M. Purcell.” In The Pioneers of NMR and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar‐Ilan University, pp. 171–260. (Purcell said he was pleased with this account and that it accurately reflected his scientific endeavors.)
Pound, Robert V. (2000). “Edward Mills Purcell.” Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 78: 183–204.
Purcell, E. M. (1969). “On the Alignment of Interstellar Dust.” Physica 41: 100–127.
——— (1977). “Life at Low Reynolds Number.” American Journal of Physics 45: 3–11.
Purcell, E. M. and Paul R. Shapiro (1977). “A Model for the Optical Behavior of Grains with Resonant Impurities.” Astrophysical Journal 214: 92–105.
Purcell, E. M. and L. Spitzer, Jr. (1971). “Orientation of Rotating Grains.” Astrophysical Journal 167: 31–62.
Purcell, E. M., H. C. Torrey, and R. V. Pound (1946). “Resonance Absorption by Nuclear Magnetic Moments in a Solid.” Physical Review 69: 37–38.
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Bloembergen, N. (2007). Purcell, Edward Mills. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1131
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