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Percy Williams Bridgman (Cambridge, 21 de Abril de 1882 — Randolph, 20 de Agosto de 1961) foi um físico estadunidense.
Recebeu em 1946 o Nobel de Física, pela invenção de equipamentos de alta pressão e pelas descobertas no campo da Física de Altas Pressões.
Acometido pela doença de Paget, suicidou-se em 20 de agosto de 1961 com um tiro na cabeça.
Publicações[editar]
- 1914. A Complete Collection of Thermodynamic Formulas (abstract). Phys. Rev. 3 (4): 273–281. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.3.273. http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v3/i4/p273_1.
- 1922. Dimensional Analysis. Yale University Press
- 1925. A Condensed Collection of Thermodynamics Formulas. Harvard University Press
- 1927. The Logic of Modern Physics. Beaufort Books. Online excerpt.
- 1934. Thermodynamics of Electrical Phenomena in Metals and a Condensed Collection of Thermodynamic Formulas. MacMillan.
- 1936. The Nature of Physical Theory. John Wiley & Sons.
- 1938. The Intelligent Individual and Society. MacMillan.
- 1941. The Nature of Thermodynamics. Harper & Row, Publishers.
- 1952. The Physics of High Pressure. G. Bell.
- 1956. "Probability, Logic and ESP", Science, vol. 123, p. 16, January 6, 1956.
- 1959. The Way Things Are. Harvard Univ. Press.
- 1962. A Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- 1964. Collected experimental papers. Harvard University Press.
- 1980. Reflections of a Physicist. Arno Press; ISBN 0-405-12595-X
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Ligações externas[editar]
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1875 — 1900 |
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| 1880s |
1881: William Woodnut Griscom · 1885: Cyprien Chabot e Frederick Siemens · 1886: Patrick Bernard Delany, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Ott & Brewer, Pratt & Whitney, R. H. Ramsay e Liberty Walkup · 1887: Charles F. Albert, Hugo Bilgram, Alfred H. Cowles, Eugene H. Cowles e Thomas Shaw · 1889: Edward Alfred Cowper, Ottmar Mergenthaler, T. Hart Robertson e George Frederick Simonds · 1890: J. B. Hammond, Herman Hollerith e Mayer Hayes & Co.
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1891: Stockton Bates, James H. Bevington, Bradley Allen Fiske, Tinius Olsen, Edwin F. Shaw, Samuel Matthews Vauclain e George M. Von Culin · 1892: Philip H. Holmes e Henry M. Howe · 1893: Clifford H. Batchellor, Frederic Eugene Ives, George E. Marks e Paul von Jankó · 1894: Nikola Tesla · 1895: Henry M. Howe, James Peckover e Lester Allan Pelton · 1896: Patrick Bernard Delany e Tolbert Lanston · 1897: Hamilton Castner, Elisha Gray, Charles Francis Jenkins, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Joseph Wilckes · 1898: Wilbur Olin Atwater, Thomas Corscaden, Clemens Hirschel, Henri Moissan e Edward Bennett Rosa · 1900: American Cotton Company, Louis Edward Levy, Pencoyd Iron Works, Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos e Carl Auer von Welsbach
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1901: Rudolf Diesel, John S. Forbes, L. M. Haupt, Mason and Hamlin e A. G. Waterhouse · 1902: C. E. Acker, Frederick Taylor e Maunsel White · 1903: G. H. Clam, J. L. Ferrell, Wilson Lindsley Gill, Victor Goldschmidt e Frank J. Sprague · 1904: James Mapes Dodge, Wilson Lindsley Gill, Hans Goldschmidt, L. E. Levy, L.D. Lovekin, A. E. Outerbridge, Jr. e J. C. Parker · 1905: Elisha Gray e M. I. Pupin · 1906: American Paper Bottle Company e William J. Hammer · 1907: Baldwin Locomotive Works, J. L. Borsch, J. Allen Heany, F. Philips e Edward R. Taylor · 1908: Romeyn Beck Hough e Anatole Mallet · 1909: Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Wolfgang Gaede, James Gayley, Auguste e Louis Lumière, George Owen Squier, Benjamin Talbot,
W. V. Turner, Underwood Typewriter Company, Alexis Vernasz e H. A. Wise Wood · 1910: Automatic Electric Company, John A. Brashear, Peter Cooper Hewitt, John Fritz, Robert Hadfield, Ernest Rutherford,
Joseph John Thomson, Edward Weston e Harvey W. Wiley
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| 1910s |
1912: Alexander Graham Bell, William Crookes, Alfred Noble, Edward Morley, Albert Abraham Michelson, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Samuel Wesley Stratton, Elihu Thomson e Adolf von Baeyer · 1913: Emil Berliner, Emile Fischer, William Ramsay, Isham Randolph, John William Strutt, Albert Sauveur e Charles Proteus Steinmetz · 1914: J. M. von Eder, Carl von Linde, Edgar Fahs Smith e Irmãos Wright · 1915: Michael Joseph Owens · 1916: American Telephone & Telegraph, Byron E. Eldred e Robert Gans · 1917: Edwin Fitch Northrup · 1918: Isaac Newton Lewis · 1920: William Le Roy Emmet
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1951 — 1997 |
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Nobel de Física (1901 — 2012) |
| 1901 — 1925 |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen • Hendrik Lorentz e Pieter Zeeman • Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie e Marie Curie • John William Strutt • Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard • Joseph John Thomson • Albert Abraham Michelson • Gabriel Lippmann • Guglielmo Marconi e Karl Ferdinand Braun • Johannes Diderik van der Waals • Wilhelm Wien • Nils Gustaf Dalén • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes • Max von Laue • William Henry Bragg e William Lawrence Bragg • Charles Glover Barkla • Max Planck • Johannes Stark • Charles Edouard Guillaume • Albert Einstein • Niels Bohr • Robert Andrews Millikan • Karl Siegbahn • James Franck e Gustav Ludwig Hertz
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| 1926 — 1950 |
Jean Baptiste Perrin • Arthur Holly Compton e Charles Thomson Rees Wilson • Owen Willans Richardson • Louis de Broglie • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman • Werner Karl Heisenberg • Erwin Schrödinger e Paul Dirac • James Chadwick • Victor Franz Hess e Carl David Anderson • Clinton Davisson e George Paget Thomson • Enrico Fermi • Ernest Orlando Lawrence • Otto Stern • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Wolfgang Pauli • Percy Williams Bridgman • Edward Victor Appleton • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett • Hideki Yukawa • Cecil Frank Powell
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| 1951 — 1975 |
John Douglas Cockcroft e Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton • Felix Bloch e Edward Mills Purcell • Frits Zernike • Max Born e Walther Bothe • Willis Eugene Lamb e Polykarp Kusch • William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen e Walter Houser Brattain • Chen Ning Yang e Tsung-Dao Lee • Pavel Cherenkov, Illia Mikhailovich Frank e Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm • Emilio Gino Segrè e Owen Chamberlain • Donald Arthur Glaser • Robert Hofstadter e Rudolf Mössbauer • Lev Landau • Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer e J. Hans D. Jensen • Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Basov e Aleksandr Prokhorov • Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger e Richard Feynman • Alfred Kastler • Hans Bethe • Luis Walter Alvarez • Murray Gell-Mann • Hannes Alfvén e Louis Eugène Félix Néel • Dennis Gabor • John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper e John Robert Schrieffer • Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever e Brian David Josephson • Martin Ryle e Antony Hewish • Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson e Leo James Rainwater
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| 1976 — 2000 |
Burton Richter e Samuel Chao Chung Ting • Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott e John Hasbrouck Van Vleck • Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias e Robert Woodrow Wilson • Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam e Steven Weinberg • James Watson Cronin e Val Logsdon Fitch • Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow e Kai Siegbahn • Kenneth G. Wilson • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar e William Alfred Fowler • Carlo Rubbia e Simon van der Meer • Klaus von Klitzing • Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig e Heinrich Rohrer • Johannes Georg Bednorz e Karl Alexander Müller • Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz e Jack Steinberger • Norman Foster Ramsey, Hans Georg Dehmelt e Wolfgang Paul • Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall e Richard Edward Taylor • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes • Georges Charpak • Russell Alan Hulse e Joseph Hooton Taylor • Bertram Neville Brockhouse e Clifford Glenwood Shull • Martin Lewis Perl e Frederick Reines • David Morris Lee, Douglas Dean Osheroff e Robert Coleman Richardson • Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji e William Daniel Phillips • Robert Betts Laughlin, Horst Ludwig Störmer e Daniel Chee Tsui • Gerardus 't Hooft e Martinus J. G. Veltman • Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer e Jack Kilby
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| 2001 — 2012 |
Eric Allin Cornell, Carl Wieman e Wolfgang Ketterle • Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba e Riccardo Giacconi • Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg e Anthony Leggett • David Gross, Hugh David Politzer e Frank Wilczek • Roy Glauber, John Lewis Hall e Theodor Hänsch • John Mather e George Fitzgerald Smoot III • Albert Fert e Peter Grünberg • Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi e Toshihide Masukawa • Charles Kao, Willard Boyle e George Smith • Andre Geim e Konstantin Novoselov • Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess e Brian Schmidt • Serge Haroche e David Wineland
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Estados Unidos
Nobel de Física (1946), Medalha Bingham (1951)
