| Percy Williams Bridgman  Born: 21-Apr-1882
Birthplace: Cambridge, MA
Died: 20-Aug-1961
Location of death: Randolph, NH
Cause of death: Suicide
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Investigated high pressure physics Wife: Olive Ware (m. 1912, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Jane (b. 1914)
Son: Robert Ware (b. 1915)
University: AB, Harvard University (1904)
University: MA, Harvard University (1905)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1908)
Professor: Harvard University (1919-54, emeritus after)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1946
Rumford Prize 1917
American Physical Society President, 1942
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Author of books:
Dimensional Analysis (1922)
The Logic of Modern Physics (1927, physics)
The Physics of High Pressure (1931, physics)
The Thermodynamics of Electrical Phenomena in Metals (1934, physics)
The Nature of Physical Theory (1936, physics)
The Intelligent Individual and Society (1938, physics)
The Nature of Thermodynamics (1941, physics)
Reflections of a Physicist (1950, physics)
Collected Experimental Papers (1964, physics, 7 vols.)
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