<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edward Purcell</span>
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Edward Purcell

An underrated physicist genius, who understood the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect better than Hanbury Brown himself and predicted as well as realized the Purcell effect. Those achievements make him a founding father of quantum optics. I love in particular his textbook relativistic treatment of the magnetic field.