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Of Percy Williams Bridgman.  Percy Williams Bridgman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 21st, 1882.

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1 Of Percy Williams Bridgman

2  Percy Williams Bridgman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 21st, 1882.

3  He got his early education in middle school.  Then in 1900 he entered Harvard university.  He graduated four years later and then he got his PhD in physics, four years later.  And finally he became a professor at Higgins university.

4  He research the effects of high pressures on materials and their thermodynamic behaviour.  He did extensive investigations on all sorts of different properties up to 100,00 atmosphere pressures.  This is Percy

5  Thee logic of modern physics.  The physics of high pressure.  The thermodynamics of electrical phenomena in metals.  The nature of physical theory.

6  He received honorary doctor of science degrees from Stevens institutes.  He received the Rumford medal, the Cresson medal, the Comstock medal and the Comstock prize.  And the New York award of the research corporation.

7  Member of the American physics society  The American association of the advancement of science.  The American academy of arts and science.  And all so the American philosophical society.

8  He married Olive Ware in 1912.  Then they had two children Jane in 1914 and their son Robert in 1915.

9  Percy W. Bridgman died on August 20, 1961.  Percy house>>>>>>>>>

10  Nobleprize.org


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