1882
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist (1882–1961)
- Born
- 1882
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.