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Edward Mills Purcell, an Uncommon card
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Edward Mills Purcell quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Edward Mills Purcell card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Friends and ______ knew him as Ed Purcell.
Answer
colleagues. Friends and colleagues knew him as Ed Purcell. From the Edward Mills Purcell article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the ____ Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids.
Answer
1950s. Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. From the Edward Mills Purcell article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- NMR has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures.
- Friends and colleagues knew him as Ed Purcell.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Edward Mills Purcell (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
