Norman Foster Ramsey

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Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (born the August 27th, 1915, with Washington, cd.) is a American Physicien .

Physical professor of to the University Harvard since 1947, Ramsey also held several stations in agencies of the government and international like NATO and the American Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique . One allotted the to him Nobel Prize of physics in 1989 for the invention of the Méthode of the separate alternate fields (“separated oscillatory field method”) and his application to the Maser with Hydrogène, which has important applications in the construction of atomic clock.

Ramsey obtains its B.A., Bachelor off Arts and Ph.D., Doctor off Philosophy in physics with the Université of Columbia respectively in 1935 and 1940. It remained there as professor until it settles with the Université Harvard in 1947.

Humanistic, it in particular signed, with other prizes winner of the Nobel Prize, a call asking that a delegation of the Committee of the Rights of the Child of UNO returns visit to a child Tibetan under house arrest since 1995 in China, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, recognized like 11th Panchen LAMA by the 14th Dalaï Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.

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Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel
Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of physique 1989
Norman F. Ramsey

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