Percy Williams Bridgman

See also: Bridgman

Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21st 1882 - August 20th 1961) was a Physicien states-unien which received the Nobel Prize of physics in 1946 for its work on the physics of the high pressures after having received the Prix Rumford in 1917.

Biography

Bridgman was born with Cambridge in the Massachusetts. He entered to Harvard in 1900 to study physics, and started to teach with Harvard in 1910, as professor starting from 1919. He had begun in 1905 research on certain phenomena under Pression. Because of a dysfunction, it modified its material and the result was the invention of a new type of machine making it possible to obtain pressure of more than: 100000 kg/Cm ² (10 G Pa). It was a major improvement on the former systems which could only reach: 3000 kg/cm ² (0,3 GPa). It created also the Joint of Bridgman.

With this new apparatus, many new research was undertaken, including on the effect of the pressure on electrical resistance and the states Fluide S and solid S under pressure.

Bridgman is also known for his studies of electric conduction in metals and the properties of the crystals, like for his writings in Philosophie of sciences. He was also one of the eleven signatories of the Manifeste Russell-Einstein. He becomes foreign member of the Royal Society in 1949.

Major works

  • The Logic off Modern Physics (the logic of modern physics 1927)
  • Natural The off Physical Theory (the nature of the theory physique 1936)

External bond

  • Biography Nobel

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