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Edward M. Purcell, professor of physics, leaves for Sweden tomorrow to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics.
The prizes will be presented by Guatsav Adolph VI, king of Sweden, in ceremonies at Stockholm Wednesday. Purcell shares this year's prize in physics with Stanford's Felix Bloch. Both simultaneously developed methods for measuring magnetic forces in atomic nuclei.
While in Stockholm, Purcell will deliver a paper before a group of Swedish scientists. He will be accompanied on the trip by his wife.
Package store owners are hoping for a cold day. "If it's warm," Varsity Liquor Store manager Frank Purcell said, "They'll buy beer. If it's cold, they'll buy the hard stuff." Brandy and cognac sales have been up all week and almost all of the punch bowls...
In March 1951, Purcell and Ewen announced that these hydrogen clouds radiate at a wavelength of 21 centimenters, and Ewen got his Ph.D. in Physics. The latter still insists, "Purcell provided the brains, I just the brawn."