“It is one of the paradoxes of our time that the great triumphs of the human intellect, in the ordering of our experience of the physical world, have been used to fashion engines of destruction whose power may annul all the rest of man's history.”

About Edward Mills Purcell

Physicist • American

Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). His breakthrough research in liquids and solids provided a...