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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946

"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
Percy Williams Bridgman
USA
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1882
d. 1961
 
 
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