Norman Foster Ramsey - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1989
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Norman Foster Ramsey

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1989
for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks
Together with: Hans Georg Dehmelt , Wolfgang Paul
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
8/27/1915
place of birth
Washington, D.C.
date of death
11/4/2011
place of death
Wayland
Lived
96 years

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educated at
  • Columbia University
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • start time: 1931
    • end time: 1940
  • Leavenworth High School
    • end time: 1930
  • University of Cambridge
    • start time: 1935
    • end time: 1937
member of
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 4/24/1989
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1958
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • start time: 1942
employer
  • Harvard University
    • start time: 1947
    • end time: 1986
  • University of Michigan
  • Columbia University
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • end time: 1940
  • Carnegie Institution for Science
    • end time: 1940
    • start time: 1940
doctoral student
  • Noel Robert Corngold
  • William Nierenberg
  • Daniel Kleppner
  • Reuven Opher
  • Norton Hintz
  • Ramon Brewster Hoff
  • Roger Hegstrom
  • David J. Wineland
field of work
  • nuclear physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
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