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"Well," Purcell said on reading the clipping for the first time, "I guess it's all right--"I can't really remember the climatic conditions...and anyway the point is the experiment didn't work the first time."
Just before Christmas the important day dawned--the equipment was ready. Newspapermen had a field day describing the event: "Purcell, Pound, and Torrey stayed in their workshop until four o'clock one December morning," one article read, "When they left to go home through a blinding snowstorm, they had completed...
Modesty immediately overtakes Purcell when asked why he won the prize. "I guess it's because I suggested the original experiment," he muttered "but I think it's only fair to say that the original experiment could not have been done without any one of the three of us."
Purcell's greatest ordeal is yet to come. Last Saturday he left by plane for Stockholm, Sweden, where King Gustav Adolf will give him a medal, a scroll, and a monetary reward during the week-long celebration for Nobel Prize winners. "Bridgman (Physics Nobel Prize in 1946) has told the...
Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, told Swedish scientists and newsmen yesterday that his newly developed methods for measuring the magnetic fields of atomic nuclei would contribute to the creation of a better atomic theory.