Percy Williams Bridgman
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Percy Williams Bridgman (21 Aprile 1882 – 20 August 1961) wis an American physicist wha wan the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his wirk on the physics o heich pressurs. He forby wrote extensively on the scienteefic method an on ither aspects o the filosofie o science.[2][3][4]
 Percy Williams Bridgman | |
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| Born | 21 Apryle 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts, Unitit States |
| Dee'd | 20 August 1961 (aged 79) Randolph, New Hampshire, Unitit States |
Cause o daith | Suicide |
| Naitionality | Unitit States |
| Alma mater | Harvard Varsity |
| Kent for | Heich pressur physics Operationalism Operational defineetion |
| Awairds | Rumford Prize (1917) Elliott Cresson Medal (1932) Comstock Prize in Physics (1933) Nobel Prize in Physics (1946) Fellae o the Ryal Society (1949)[1] Bingham Medal (1951) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Harvard Varsity |
| Doctoral advisor | Wallace Clement Sabine |
| Doctoral students | Francis Birch Gerald Holton John C. Slater John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
References
eedit- ↑ Newitt, D. M. (1962). "Percy Williams Bridgman 1882–1961". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8: 26–40. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1962.0003.
- ↑ "Percy W. Bridgman". Physics Today. 14 (10): 78. 1961. doi:10.1063/1.3057180.
- ↑ Bridgman, P. (1914). "A Complete Collection of Thermodynamic Formulas". Physical Review. 3 (4): 273–281. Bibcode:1914PhRv....3..273B. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.3.273.
- ↑ Bridgman, P. W. (1956). "Probability, Logic, and ESP". Science. 123 (3184): 15–17. Bibcode:1956Sci...123...15B. doi:10.1126/science.123.3184.15. PMID 13281470.
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