Edward Mills Purcell (1912 - 1997)

Born 30 Aug 1912 in Taylorville, Christian, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Beth Cameron (Busser) Purcell — married 23 Jan 1937 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Died 7 Mar 1997 at age 84 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Edward Purcell is Notable.

Edward Purcell was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Perhaps best known as a discoverer of nuclear magnetic resonance, Purcell's interests ranged broadly. He worked on radar development, wrote an important electronics textbook, and explored areas from radio astronomy to low-speed flow in viscous fluids. He shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.

One of many obituaries with good information is from Harvard University.^[1] Even better is a National Academy of Sciences Memoir with an extensive scientific history as well as some personal details and a selected bibliography.^[2]

Research Notes

Edward has a fairly complete tree at familysearch.^[3] So far I have not spotted any close connections to the global tree here. A profile which may represent an ancestor of Edward is Mary Lupton (1764-) and . Ancestors of Beth may be Petrus Buser (1738-) and Daniel Boyer (abt.1799-).

Sources

1. ↑ Physicist Edward Purcell Dies, The Harvard Crimson, 1977. Accessed 5 Apr 2021.
2. ↑ Robert V. Pound, Edward Mills Purcell 1912-1997, National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol 78, 2000, National Academy Press, Washington D.C.
3. ↑ Edward Mills Purcell at FamilySearch.com

• E. M. Purcell – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2021. Mon. 5 Apr 2021. [1]
• Wikipedia contributors. (2021, March 26). Edward Mills Purcell. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 01:50, April 6, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Mills_Purcell&oldid=1014342886
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJSS-L5X : 1 February 2021), Edward Purcell in entry for Edward Purcell, 1920. [Age 7 with parents Edward (41) and Mary (38) and brother William R (1). All born in Illinois.]
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSRK-48J : accessed 6 April 2021), Edward Purcell Jr. in household of Edward Purcell, Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 21, sheet 14B, line 89, family 389, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 412; FHL microfilm 2,340,147. [The same family of 4 as in 1920, now in Mattoon, Illinois.]
• "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:248B-L55 : 10 February 2018), Edward M. Purcell and Beth C. Busser, 23 Jan 1937; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,674,790. [His parents Edward A. Purcell and Mary E. Mills, hers William Cameron Busser and Laura Beth Meisenhelder.]
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4VJ-272 : 10 January 2021), Edward Purcell, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-91, sheet 1B, line 75, family 32, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1685. [Age 27, with wife Beth (28, Pennsylvania).]
• "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZB6-Q72 : 13 June 2019), Edward M Purcell, 1997.
• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKWV-VT8W : accessed 6 April 2021), Mr Edward Mills Purcell, Massachusetts, United States, 10 Mar 1997; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Boston Herald, born-digital text. [Obituary, naming 2 sons.]
• Wikidata: Item Q183270, en:Wikipedia