Awards & Winners

Percy Williams Bridgman

Date of Birth 21-April-1882
Place of Birth Cambridge
(United States of America, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Area code 617, Area code 857)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as P. W. Bridgman
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics 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.

Awards by Percy Williams Bridgman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Percy Williams Bridgman.

1946


Nobel Prize in Physics
(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)

1933


Comstock Prize in Physics
(For his investigations leading to increased understanding of the electrical constitution of matter.)

1917


Rumford Prize
(For his thermodynamic research at extremely high pressures.)