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Journalists last month suddenly dragged a rather unwilling physicist out of secluded Lyman Laboratory into the public's view. Self-effacing Edward M. Purcell (as well as Stanford's Felix Bloch) had won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics and this was part of his reward. "First came the Swedish...
Few undergraduates have a chance to know Purcell unless they major in Physics. Purcell admits his main interests lie in research and if he had to choose he'd far rather be in his experimental laboratory than teaching Physics 11a--"frankly I think I'm a bit stale there." In...
Purcell turned to Physics largely as an afterthought. "I trained as an electrical engineer at Purdue because I didn't know what Physics really was." After getting his B.S., he spent a year in Germany and then returned to Harvard to receive his M.A. in 1935 and Ph.D. three years...
It was in the waning months of 1945 that Purcell made his prize-winning discovery while on leave of absence at M.I.T. He was head of a group which discovered new microwave techniques, for radar and other electronic instruments. "Altogether it was a very large show--started with 40 men...
One day Purcell lunched with Robert V. Pound, then on leave from a Harvard Junior Fellowship, and H. C. Torrey, on leave from Rutgers. During the conversation, Purcell mentioned the idea he was mulling over. Briefly it involved measuring the forces at work inside atoms, taking advantage of the fact...