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Percy Williams Bridgman
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Person

Percy Williams Bridgman

1882 – 1961 · aged 79

American physicist

Born
21 Apr 1882 · Cambridge
Died
20 Aug 1961 · Randolph
Part ofAtheism460 BCE – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 91 years
  1. 21 Apr 1882BornBorn in Cambridge
  2. 1917AwardRumford Prize
  3. 1929AwardGuthrie Lecture
  4. 1931AwardJosiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
  5. 1932AwardElliott Cresson Medal
  6. 1933AwardComstock Prize in Physics
  7. 1946AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  8. 1949AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  9. 1950AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  10. 1950AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  11. 1951AwardBingham Medal
  12. 20 Aug 1961DiedDied in Randolph

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1882 – 1961).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System

Biography

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.

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