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Percy Williams Bridgman
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Percy Williams Bridgman

Scientist · born April 21, 1882 · died 1961

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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.

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  1. ~64Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1946

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