Purcell Embarks for Sweden Saturday to Get Nobel Award

Edward M. Purcell, professor of physics, leaves for Sweden tomorrow to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics.

The prizes will be presented by Guatsav Adolph VI, king of Sweden, in ceremonies at Stockholm Wednesday. Purcell shares this year's prize in physics with Stanford's Felix Bloch. Both simultaneously developed methods for measuring magnetic forces in atomic nuclei.

While in Stockholm, Purcell will deliver a paper before a group of Swedish scientists. He will be accompanied on the trip by his wife.