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Norman Foster Ramsey
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, 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 S…
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science · American physicist (1915–2011) · physicist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · also Norman Foster Ramsey, Norman Ramsey Jr., Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Norman F. Ramsey Jr., Norman Ramsey, Ramsey
Born 27 August 1915 · Died 4 November 2011 · Q107419
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2011· 1 entry
Died 2011-11-04.
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Signed a letter along with 47 other Nobel laureates endorsing John Kerry for President of the United States as someone who would "restore science to its appropriate place in government"
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Vannevar Bush Award (1995).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Einstein Prize for Laser Science (1993).
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1990· 2 entries
Won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1990).
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Ramsey received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1989).
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"for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks"
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1988· 2 entries
Won Oersted Medal (1988).
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Won National Medal of Science (1988).
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded I. I. Rabi Award (1985).
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Awarded Rumford Prize (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
After which he married Ellie Welch of Brookline, Massachusetts
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics (1974).
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1960).
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Davisson–Germer Prize in 1974, the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1984, the Rabi Prize in 1985, the Rumford Premium Prize in 1985, the Compton Medal in 1986, and the Oersted Medal and the National Medal of Science in 1988
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1954).
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1949· 1 entry
As a means of achieving the accuracy he wanted
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1947· 1 entry
Joined the physics faculty at Harvard University, where he would remain for the next 40 years, except for brief visiting professorships at Middlebury College, Oxford University, Mt
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1946· 1 entry
Became the first head of the Physics Department there
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1943· 1 entry
Ramsey was approached by Robert Oppenheimer and Robert Bacher, who asked him to join the Manhattan Project
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1940· 3 entries
Studied at Columbia University, Doctor of Philosophy (1931–1940).
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Married Elinor Jameson of Brooklyn, New York, and accepted a teaching position at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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And became a fellow at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at University of Cambridge (1935–1937).
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1930· 2 entries
His father was posted to Governors Island, New York
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Studied at Leavenworth High School (1930).
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1915· 2 entries
To Minna Bauer Ramsey and Norman Foster Ramsey
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Born 1915-08-27.
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