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Norman Foster Ramsey
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Norman Foster Ramsey

1915 – 2011 · aged 96

American physicist (1915–2011)

Born
27 Aug 1915 · Washington, D.C.
Died
4 Nov 2011 · Wayland

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 110 years
  1. 27 Aug 1915BornBorn in Washington, D.C.
  2. 1954AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  3. 1960AwardErnest Orlando Lawrence Award
  4. 1974AwardDavisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
  5. 1984AwardIEEE Medal of Honor
  6. 1985AwardI. I. Rabi Award
  7. 1985AwardRumford Prize
  8. 1988AwardNational Medal of Science
  9. 1988AwardOersted Medal
  10. 1989AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  11. 1990AwardDirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
  12. 1993AwardEinstein Prize for Laser Science
  13. 1995AwardVannevar Bush Award
  14. 4 Nov 2011DiedDied in Wayland

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1915 – 2011).

  1. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  2. 1917Balfour Declaration
  3. 1917February Revolution
  4. 1917October Revolution
  5. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  6. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  7. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  8. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  9. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  10. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  11. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  12. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1938Munich Agreement
  14. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  15. 1939 – 1945World War II
  16. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  17. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  18. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  19. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  20. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  21. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  22. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  23. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  25. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  26. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  28. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  29. 1956Suez Crisis
  30. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  32. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  34. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  36. 1968Prague Spring
  37. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  38. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  39. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  40. 19781978 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method (see Ramsey interferometry), which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. A physics professor at Harvard University for most of his career, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Among his other accomplishments are helping to found the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab.

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