Percy W. Bridgman(1882–1961)

Physics

Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 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.

United States
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Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Physics

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

Harvard University
1946

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Psychoanalysis Scientific Method and Philosophy(2020)
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Verhalten des Wassers als Flüssigkeit und in fünf festen Formen unter Druck

Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie(1912)
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Nochmals die Frage des unbeständigen Eises

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Verhalten des Wassers als Flüssigkeit und in fünf festen Formen unter Druck

Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie1912
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Nochmals die Frage des unbeständigen Eises

Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
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Education

Harvard University
Newton North High School

Doctoral Advisors

Edwin C. KembleJohn C. SlaterWallace Clement Sabine

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