Percy Williams Bridgman

Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) 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.

Awards: Rumford Prize, Guthrie Lecture, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Elliott Cresson Medal, Comstock Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, Bingham Medal Education: Harvard University, Newton North High School

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