"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"

Percy W. Bridgman

USA
born 1882, died 1961
CA - Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
AA - Harvard University
WA - Harvard University

Additional Information:

• Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1946
• Essay "On Scientific Method" reproduced from Reflections of a Physicist, 1955
• Finding Aid to the Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, 1905-1982
• Lead story in "Assisted Suicide: A Moral Right"