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Edward Purcell (wrestler) (Edward Purcell, born 1985), Canadian ice hockey player
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Edward Purcell may refer to: * Edward A. Purcell Jr., American historian * Edward Henry Purcell (died 1765), English organist, printer, and music publisher * Edward Mills Purcell (1912–1997), American physicist, Nobel Prize winner * Edward Purcell (musician) (1689–1740), English composer * Edward Purcell (rugby league) (born 1988), Samoan rugby league international * Teddy Purcell Edward Purcell (born September 8, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning, Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers. He was not dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Edward is an English language, English given name. It is derived from the Old English, Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements ''wikt:ead#Old English, ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and ''wikt:weard#Old English, weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the House of Normandy, Norman and House of Plantagenet, Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III of England, Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I of England, Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian Peninsula#Modern Iberia, Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte (name), Duarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Henry Purcell
Edward Henry Purcell (died 1765), organist, was the son of Edward Purcell and grandson of the English Baroque master, Henry Purcell. He was a chorister in the Chapel Royal in 1737.Holman, Peter, and Thompson, Robert 'Edward Henry Purcell' in ''Grove Music Online'' (ed. L. Macy), , accessed 15 March 2008 Upon the death of his father in 1740, he succeeded him as organist of St Clement, Eastcheap. He was also organist of St Edmund, King and Martyr, between 10 September 1747 and 10 October 1753, from whence he became organist at St John, Hackney,Dawe, Donovan 'Edward Purcell' in ''Organs and Organists of the City of London''. Padstow: Dawe. 136. all the while retaining his post at St Clement's. (N.B. the present Hackney church is a later building). At Hackney he was rebuked for lightness and for irregular attendance.'Hackney: The Parish Church' in ''A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney'' (1995). 115–122. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Mills Purcell
Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (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. Biography Born and raised in Taylorville, Illinois, Purcell received his BSEE in electrical engineering from Purdue University, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. He was a member of the Alpha Xi chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity while at Purdue. After spending the years of World War II working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory on the development of microwave radar, Purcell returned to Harvard to do research. In December 1946, he discovered nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with his colleagues Robert Pound and Henry Torrey. NMR p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Purcell (musician)
Edward Purcell (1689–1740) was an English organist and composer. Purcell was born in Westminster, London, the only surviving son of English Baroque master Henry Purcell, who died in 1695 when Edward was a small child. When his mother Frances died in February 1706, she stated in her will, and apparently in accordance with her husband's wishes, that she had given him a good education.Holman, Peter, and Thompson, Robert 'Edward Purcell' in ''Grove Music Online'' (ed. L. Macy)grovemusic.com, accessed 15 March 2008 She also bequeathed to him music and instruments: "the organ, the double spinnet, the single spinnet"; possibly the instruments her husband had used.Holman, Peter (1994) ''Henry Purcell'' (Series: Oxford Studies of Composers). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 98. Edward became organist of St Clement Eastcheap, in London at the end of 1711, a position he retained for the rest of his life. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to succeed his uncle Daniel Purcell as organist of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Purcell (rugby League)
Edward Purcell is a professional rugby league footballer who represented Samoa in the 2013 World Cup. Playing career Purcell played for the Auckland Lions in the 2007 Bartercard Cup grand final winning side. In 2008 he played 31 games for the New Zealand Warriors side in the Toyota Cup. He played for the Akarana Falcons in the 2013 National Competition, and was then selected by Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ... for the World Cup. ''bbc.co.uk'', 9 October 2013 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Purcell, Edward[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
