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 and the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique are named after him.
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21 April 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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20 August 1961 (aged 79) Randolph, New Hampshire, U.S.
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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