Percy W. Bridgman

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Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.


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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Physics
human
philosopher of science
physicist
academicDegree PhD in physics
awardReceived National Medal of Science
Nobel Prize in Physics
Rumford Prize
causeOfDeath suicide
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1882-04-21
dateOfDeath 1961-08-20
doctoralAdvisor Wallace Clement Sabine
doctoralStudent Edward Mills Purcell
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
educatedAt Harvard University
employer Harvard University
familyName Bridgman
fieldOfWork high-pressure physics
philosophy of science
physics
givenName Percy
influenced behaviorism
logical positivism
philosophy of science in the 20th century
influencedBy Albert Einstein
William James
knownFor Bridgman seal
development of operationalism
pioneering work in high-pressure physics
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences (United States)
middleName Williams
notableWork Reflections of a Physicist
The Intelligent Individual and Society
The Logic of Modern Physics
The Nature of Physical Theory
philosophicalSchool operationalism
placeOfBirth Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath Randolph, New Hampshire, United States
positionHeld Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University
residence Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
sexOrGender male
workFocus experimental techniques for generating very high pressures
properties of materials under extreme pressure
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Russell–Einstein Manifesto
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