Percy Bridgman Ph.D.
Percy Bridgman Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946
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Name: Percy Williams Bridgman
Birth: 21 April 1882, Cambridge, MA, USA
Death: 20 August 1961, Randolph, NH, USA
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Award: “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”
Subject: material physics
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Award: “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
Biography
A biographical memoir a Memorial Tribute by Edwin C. Kemble, National Academy of Sciences, biography 28 pages, 47 pages total.