E. M. Purcell
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Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1949, by John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
- Physics 1950, by Shirley Quimby
- Physics 1950, by Alfred Kastler
- Physics 1951, by C Bakker
- Physics 1951, by Max von Laue
- Physics 1952, by Herbert Lawrence Anderson
- Physics 1952, by Arthur Compton
- Physics 1952, by Manne Karl Siegbahn
- Physics 1952, by John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
- Physics 1952, by D Williams
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