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    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...
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    textbook in electromagnetism originally written by Nobel laureate Edward Mills Purcell in 1963. Along with David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics...
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    Well-known recipients include Nobel laureates Robert Andrews Millikan, Edward M. Purcell, Richard Feynman, Isidor I. Rabi, Norman F. Ramsey, Hans Bethe, and...
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    Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell (born 17 February 1970) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Lincoln Burrows in Fox's Prison...
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    World War II as a second lieutenant. As a graduate student under Edward M. Purcell, he was the first to detect the galactic 21-cm hydrogen line. Ewen...
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    Charles II of England. Henry the elder had three sons: Edward, Henry and Daniel. Daniel Purcell, the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer...
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  • Mechanics, by Charles Kittel, et al. Electricity and Magnetism, by Edward M. Purcell Waves, by Frank S. Crawford Jr. Quantum Physics, by Eyvind H. Wichmann...
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  • Elementary Modern Physics (5th ed.). W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-0810-8. Edward M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985). ISBN 0-07-004908-4...
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    astronomy." Recipients have included Fred Hoyle, Charles Townes, Edward M. Purcell, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Philip Morrison, Vera Rubin, Jocelyn...
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  • of the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize include: 1986 Jocelyn Bell Burnell — discovery of first pulsar 1988 Harold I. Ewen, Edward M. Purcell — discovery of 21 cm...
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