Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.
(Reguidit frae Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.)
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) wis an American physicist wha wis awairdit the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the invention o the separatit oscillatory field method, which haed important applications in the construction o atomic clocks.
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. | |
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Norman F. Ramsey | |
Born | 27 August 1915 Washington, DC |
Dee'd | 4 November 2011 Wayland, Massachusetts | (aged 96)
Residence | Unitit States |
Naitionality | Unitit States |
Alma mater | Columbia Varsity, Varsity o Cambridge |
Kent for | Separatit oscillatory field method |
Awairds | Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awaird (1960) Davisson-Germer Prize (1974) IEEE Medal o Honor (1984) Rabi Prize (1985) Rumford Prize (1985) Oersted Medal (1988) Naitional Medal o Science (1988) Nobel Prize in Physics (1989) Dirac Medal (1990) Vannevar Bush Awaird (1995) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Harvard Varsity |
Doctoral advisor | Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Doctoral students | David J. Wineland, Daniel Kleppner, Howard Berg |
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