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	Edward Mills Purcell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 (1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids.
		Purcell also made contributions to astronomy as the first to detect radio emissions from neutral galactic hydrogen, affording the first views of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
		Purcell was the recipient of many awards for his scientific, educational, and civic work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Mills_Purcell (442 words)

	Edward M. Purcell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward M. Purcell, author of the Electricity and Magnetism textbook for Physics II (8.022), died on March 7 in Cambridge.
		Purcell had measured the emissions' wavelengths at 21 centimeters, exactly the prediction made earlier by scientists.
		Purcell served as president of the American Physical Society and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V117/N12/purcell.12n.html (358 words)

	Edward Mills Purcell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 - March 7, 1997) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American physicist who shared the 1952 (additional info and facts about Nobel Prize for Physics) Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids.
		Born and raised in central Illinois, Purcell received his B.S.E.E. in electrical engineering from (additional info and facts about Purdue University) Purdue University, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from (A university in Massachusetts) Harvard University.
		It also is the basis of (The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), one of the most important medical advances of the 20th century.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_mills_purcell.htm (484 words)

	Edward Mills Purcell, August 30, 1912March7, 1997 \| By Robert V. Pound \| Biographical Memoirs
		His father, Edward A. Purcell, was manager of the local telephone exchange in Taylorville, and moved, when the boy Edward was fourteen years of age, to Matoon, Illinois, some 60 miles southeast to become general manager of the Illinois Southeastern Telephone Company, an independent regional company.
		Purcell applied to the Rumford Fund of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for support in the amount of $500, with which he was able to construct the horn antenna and carry out the project.
		Although Edward Purcell's contribution to radio astronomy brought him into contact with astrophysics, it was in the early 1960s that he moved most of his creative research energies into astrophysics.
	www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/biomems/epurcell.html (5530 words)

	HOASM: Henry Purcell
		Purcell became the organ tuner at Westminster Abbey (1674-78), succeeded Matthew Locke as composer-in-ordinary for the violins in 1677, and was appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in 1679.
		Purcell is one of the greatest of all English composers and an outstanding figure of the Baroque period.
		Purcell's secular vocal output is immense and includes, in addition to the nearly 150 songs from dramatic works, an additional 100 works (many published in contemporary songbooks) as well as numerous duets and catches.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIA/Purcell.html (695 words)

	Dr. E.M. Purcell, 84, Shared Nobel for Work on Hydrogen
		Edward M. Purcell, who made it possible to "listen" to the whisperings of hydrogen throughout the universe, died Friday in Cambridge, Mass.
		Purcell was a tall, thin man who retained his boyish appearance and diffidence into middle age.
		Edward Mills Purcell was born in Taylorville, Ill., on Aug. 30, 1912.
	nobelprizes.com /nobel/physics/obit-purcell.html (837 words)

	Purcell Oral History
		Purcell: It was assumed from the beginning that it was to be common.
		Purcell: It was because they were all physicists who trusted one another as scientists, had the same kind of values, and the same admiration for a good idea no matter who had it.
		Purcell: Again, it was a case of going after a very weak signal by means that were optimized to detect a weak signal.
	www.ieee.org /organizations/history_center/oral_histories/transcripts/purcell.html (7061 words)

	Henry Purcell
		His father, Henry Purcell (or Pursell), was a gentleman of the chapel-royal, and in that capacity sang at the coronation of Charles II; he had three sons, Edward, Henry and Daniel -- the last of whom was also a prolific composer.
		Purcell wrote several anthems at different times for this extraordinary voice, a basso profundo, the compass of which is known to have comprised at least two full octaves, from D below the stave to D above it.
		In 1682 Purcell was appointed organist of the chapel-royal, vice Edmund Lowe deceased, an office which he was able to hold conjointly with his appointment at Westminster Abbey.
	www.nndb.com /people/352/000093073 (1232 words)

	Nobel Prize Winner Edward Purcell Dies at 84
		Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus and co-winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, died March 7 in Cambridge.
		Purcell, armed with the latest information on energy states in nuclear particles and on microwave energy, surmised that with a strong magnetic field, he could bring the spinning nuclear particles of a specimen into alignment, then use microwaves to find their resonant frequency and magnetism.
		Purcell leaves his wife, Beth Busser; his sons, Dennis of Medford and Frank of Arlington; and a brother, Robert of Houston, Texas.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/03.13/NobelPrizeWinne.html (404 words)

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		Purcell argues that diversity jurisdiction, which was created to protect against partisan bias against "outsiders" in state courts was abused by corporations so that they could secure hearings in the more favorable federal courts.
		Purcell argues that "Brandeis was animated by broad personal and social purposes and that he sought to use his opinion to institutionalize the goals and values of early-twentieth-century Progressivism" (p.
		Purcell argues "tumultuous historical changes ripped his opinion from its cultural moorings and propelled it into a drastically different world where judges and legal scholars viewed it with new eyes [which] fundamentally reshaped Brandeis's opinion as later generations struggled to control the scope and shape of federal judicial power (p.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/purcell.html (2999 words)

	Magnetic Resonance Imagin... - A Different Kind of Reson...
		Both Purcell and Bloch chose to study the proton --the nucleus of the hydrogen atom (H).
		Purcell's group used a two-pound block of paraffin wax as their hydrogen source; Bloch's group used a few drops of water contained in a glass sphere.
		Purcell and Bloch hoped to detect magnetic resonance by observing the energy that precessing nuclei absorbed or gave to the radio frequency
	www.beyonddiscovery.org /content/view.page.asp?I=132 (656 words)

	Faculty of Arts and Sciences Memorial Minute -- Edward Mills Purcell
		Purcell grew up in the Illinois towns of Taylorville and Mattoon, where his father managed a regional telephone company, and where the youthful Edward discovered the joys of tinkering with discarded telephone equipment.
		Purcell's wisdom extended beyond physics; his colleagues were enriched by his thoughtful views on subjects ranging from philosophy and education to politics and academic freedom.
		Purcell was a past president of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a science advisor to three presidents, and recipient of numerous awards, which he accepted reluctantly.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/04.09/FacultyofArtsan.html (4330 words)

	Purcell, Edward M. (1912-)
		Purcell, Edward M. Codiscoverer, with Harold I. Ewen, at Harvard in 1951, of the 21-centimeter line of hydrogen, for which he shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Felix Bloch who had done similar work at Stanford).
		In a lecture delivered at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 1960, Purcell attacked the notion that interstellar travel would ever be possible, arguing that radio signals were probably the best way of establishing contact with other intelligent races.
		A similar discouraging outlook for flight between the stars was expressed by Pierce and von Hoerner.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/P/Purcell.html (182 words)

	Knitting Circle Edward FitzGerald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward FitzGerald's original name was Edward Purcell, but when he was nine his mother inherited her father's enormous fortune and the family adopted his family name and arms.
		Edward FitzGerald was the seventh child in a family of eight.
		Edward FitzGerald's Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth in 1851 was a comment on English education, but also a glorification of William Kenworthy Browne.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/edwardfitzgerald.html (825 words)

	Books-on-Law: Book Reviews
		To this end, Purcell modulates among the themes familiar to any student of law or politics: the struggle between the states and the federal government, between the legislative and judicial branches, between powerful minority and majority factions, and between the competing ideals of consistency of the system and fairness to the individual.
		Purcell uses finely wrought details surrounding Brandeis's life and his Erie opinion, and leads us on an intimate tour from his upbringing all the way through to the Supreme Court chambers as Brandeis musters the votes and the will for the Erie majority.
		Perhaps Purcell's most prominent point, and one that he expresses authoritatively and convincingly, is that judges cannot, and perhaps should not, either act or be interpreted in a vacuum devoid of context, and that even the most far-reaching and important legal principle means little when extracted from its social, moral, economic, political, and historical framework.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /lawbooks/revfeb01.htm (11051 words)

	CT3 Edward Joseph Purcell, USN
		Purcell had originally planned to spend the Easter season in the headquarters area, but the need for a replacement for one of the upcoming weekend flights prompted him to volunteer for the mission.
		When he was not serving as the master of ceremonies for the Purcell clan, he often spent his time taking care of his pet bull, Mojo, who was so attached to the boy that he once followed him into the family kitchen.
		Purcell would spend the majority of his time on the flight monitoring the all-important Russian Communications.
	www.nsa.gov /publications/publi00006.cfm (893 words)

	Alabama Review: Vice Presidents" A Biographical Dictionary, The
		Professor L. Edward Purcell, the editor of this fine work, and his team of talented biographers have contributed significantly to the existing scholarship on the vice-presidency.
		Purcell has included excellent appendixes: a chronology of events, 1789-1996; listings of vice-presidents alphabetically and by state; and a list of unsuccessful vice-presidential candidates.
		Purcell predicts in his introduction that specialists and general readers will be startled "to learn that the great majority of U.S. vice-presidents have been men of extraordinary ability and achievement" (p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_200004/ai_n8880026 (368 words)

	Ewen & Purcell
		This horn antenna, now displayed in front of the Jansky Lab at NRAO in Green Bank, WV, was used by Harold Ewen and Edward Purcell, then at the Lyman Laboratory of Harvard University, in the first detection of the 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way.
		Ewen and Purcell assumed that the Dutch were probably not working on detecting the line and that the Russians might soon be.
		Purcell asked for, and received, a grant of $500 from the Rumford Fund of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for the costs of materials for building the antenna (schematic at left), waveguide, and electronic components (schematic at right).
	www.nrao.edu /whatisra/hist_ewenpurcell.shtml (927 words)

	E. M. Purcell - Biography
		Edward Mills Purcell was born in Taylorville, Illinois, U.S.A., on August 30, 1912.
		His parents, Edward A. Purcell and Mary Elizabeth Mills, were both natives of Illinois.
		Perhaps equally influential in his subsequent scientific work was the association at this time with a number of physicists, among them I.I. Rabi, with a continuing interest in the study of molecular and nuclear properties by radio methods.
	nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1952/purcell-bio.html (438 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Baptist Purcell
		His parents, Edward and Johanna Purcell, being industrious and pious, gave their children all the advantages of the education attainable at a time when the penal laws were less rigorously enforced.
		Bishop Purcell from the beginning was an earnest advocate of the establishment of parish schools.
		The pallium was conferred on Archbishop Purcell by Pope Pius IX, who at the same time made him assistant at the pontifical throne, in appreciation of his personal worth.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12570a.htm (3028 words)

	Purcell Family Crest
		The name Purcell is an occupational surname, a form of hereditary name that existed in both cultures long before the invaders arrived, but more common to the Anglo-Norman culture.
		The surname Purcell is derived from the Norman-French word porcel, which in turn comes from the Latin word porcus, which means pig.
		In the Purcell coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/purcell-family-crest.htm (623 words)

	Major George Edward Purcell - Veterans Affairs Canada
		George Edward Purcell was born in Edmonton on June 26, 1911.
		George Purcell was promoted to the rank of Major, and was placed in command of the 34th Battery, which was compiled mainly of men from Napanee.
		George Edward Purcell was killed in action during the landing on the beach at the age of 33.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /youth/sub.cfm?source=feature/normandy04/overseas04/donald1 (718 words)

	Edward FitzGerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), English poet and translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
		Lord Edward FitzGerald (1763-1798), Irish aristocrat and revolutionary during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_FitzGerald (91 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - M.Ed.
		Kennedy, Edward M(oore), born in 1932, Democratic member of the United States Senate from Massachusetts (1962- ).
		Purcell, Edward Mills (1912-1997), American physicist, educator, and cowinner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for physics.
		In 1969 Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in Senator Edward Kennedy's car, drowned when Kennedy drove off a bridge into a pond on Chappaquiddick...
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry Edward Cardinal Manning
		Henry Edward Manning, who was born at his grandfather's home, Copped Hall, Totteridge, Herts., England, was the son of William Manning, M.P. for Evesham and Lymington and sometime governor of the Bank of England.
		His father's family was of an old Kentish stock, and though born in Hertfordshire, the future cardinal spent some years of his boyhood at Combe Bank, near Sevenoaks in Kent, whither his father had moved when his son was but seven years old.
		Cardinal Wiseman, recognizing that the circumstances of the case were exceptional, decided to let no time be lost, and Henry Edward Manning was ordained priest by his predecessor in the See of Westminster on Trinity Sunday, 14 June, 1851, little more than two months after his reception into the Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09604b.htm (4106 words)

	Edward H. Purcell Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		LAWRENCE - Edward H. Purcell Jr., 81, of Lawrence, died yesterday at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen.
		Purcell had lived there all of his life.
		He leaves his wife of 48 years Catherine M. (Flynn) Purcell, stepdaughters and their husbands Carol and Bud Crowninshield of Boxford and Kitty and Thomas C. Torosian of Methuen, stepsons and their wives William Golan and Claire of North Andover, and David Golan and Joyce of Marlborough, and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/19980209/OB_013.htm (179 words)

	Active Skim View of: Edward Mills Purcell
		Purcell, was manager of the local telephone exchange in Taylorville, and moved, when the boy Edward was fourteen years of age, to Matoon, Illinois, some 60 miles southeast to become general manager of the Illinois Southeastern Telephone Company, an independent regional company.
		Ed constructed a simple device to provide such a transient pulse, which indeed resulted in an inverted state relative to the normal thermal polarization when the crystal was subjected to this transient and then returned to the polarizing field.
		ASTROPHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS Although Edward Purcell's contribution to radio astronomy brought him into contact with astrophysics, it was in the early 1960s that he moved most of his creative research energies into astrophysics.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=030907035X&chap=182-205 (996 words)

	Purcell, Edward Mills -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Purcell, E.M. American physicist who shared, with Felix Bloch of the United States, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952 for his independent discovery (1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids.
		The most original English composer of his time, Henry Purcell composed for the church, stage, and court and for private entertainment.
		Scientist and philosopher Edward Ricketts became a close friend to Steinbeck and would serve as an inspiration for many of his literary characters.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114859 (681 words)

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