Percy Williams Bridgman - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1946
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Percy Williams Bridgman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1946
for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
4/21/1882
place of birth
Cambridge
date of death
8/20/1961
place of death
Randolph
Lived
79 years
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/12/1949
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1916
doctoral student
  • John C. Slater
  • Edwin C. Kemble
educated at
  • Newton North High School
  • Harvard University
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
employer
  • Harvard University
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