Percy Williams Bridgman

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:physicist
gptkb:professor
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Comstock_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Elliott_Cresson_Medal
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Rumford_Prize
gptkb:Bingham_Medal
Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University
gptkbp:birthDate 1882-04-21
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts,_United_States
gptkbp:causeOfDeath suicide
gptkbp:deathDate 1961-08-20
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Randolph,_New_Hampshire,_United_States
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Wallace_Clement_Sabine
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:John_C._Slater
gptkb:Hugh_S._Taylor
gptkb:John_Van_Vleck
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:field physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Percy Williams Bridgman
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Stanley_Smith_Stevens
philosophy of science
gptkbp:knownFor high-pressure physics
operationalism
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:method gptkb:Bridgman_anvil_cell
gptkb:Bridgman_seal
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:NobelPrizeMotivation 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
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear 1946
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Logic_of_Modern_Physics
gptkb:Reflections_of_a_Physicist
Dimensional Analysis
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Olive_Ware
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Rumford_Prize
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3