Percy Williams Bridgman
1882-1961
American physicist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize for Physics for work in high-pressure physics. Bridgman's self-tightening joint allowed him to extend t...
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Bridgman, Percy
(1882-1961) American physicist Percy Williams Bridgman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 21, 1882. He attended public schools in Newton, Massachusetts, and then entered Ha...
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Bridgman, Percy William(1882–1962)
An American physicist and professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard, Percy William Bridgman was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1946 f...
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The American experimental physicist Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961) was a pioneer in investigating the effects of enormous pressures on the behavior of matter--solid, liquid, and gas.Percy Bridgma...
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Percy Williams Bridgman was an experimental physicist whose principal focus was on developing apparatus for producing high pressures and on measuring the effects of high pressures on materials. His wo...
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Percy Williams Bridgman was an experimental physicist whose principal focus was on developing apparatus for producing high pressures and on measuring the effects of high pressures on materials. His wo...
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