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Percy Williams Bridgman 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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science · American physicist (1882–1961) · physicist · university teacher · also Percy Williams Bridgman, Percy Bridgman, Bridgman
Born 21 April 1882 · Died 20 August 1961 · Q172118
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The Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association approved the name bridgmanite for perovskite-structured (Mg,Fe)SiO3, the Earth's most abundant mineral, in ho
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Died 1961-08-20.
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Won Bingham Medal (1951).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1950).
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1950).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1949).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1946).
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For his work on the physics of high pressures
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Participated in the International Committee composed to organise the International Congresses for the Unity of Science
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Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1933).
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1932).
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Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1931).
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Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1929).
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Awarded Rumford Prize (1917).
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Began investigating the properties of matter under high pressure
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Bridgman entered Harvard University, where he received his A
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In Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Auburndale
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Born 1882-04-21.
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