Percy Williams Bridgman
1882
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1961
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Harvard University, Newton North High School
occupation: physicist, university teacher
Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science. The Bridgman effect, the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique, and the high-pressure mineral bridgmanite are named after him. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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