The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952

Felix Bloch

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Prize share: 1/2

Edward Mills Purcell

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 was awarded jointly to Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"

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