“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”
Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures and for discoveries in high-pressure physics, and he was affiliated with Harvard University when awarded.
- Field
- Physics · Condensed Matter Physics
- Lifespan
- 1882–1961