Norman Ramsey

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Nobel laureate human physicist

Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.

Aliases (2)

Norman F. Ramsey ×1
Norman F. Ramsey Jr. ×1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate → human → physicist →
academicAdvisor	Isidor Isaac Rabi →
awardReceived	Comstock Prize in Physics → Nobel Prize in Physics → Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 → Rumford Prize →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1915-08-27 →
dateOfDeath	2011-11-04 →
educatedAt	Columbia University → Harvard University → University of Cambridge →
employer	Brookhaven National Laboratory → Columbia University → Harvard University → Los Alamos Laboratory →
familyName	Ramsey →
fieldOfWork	atomic physics → nuclear magnetic resonance → nuclear physics → physics → precision measurement →
givenName	Norman →
influenced	development of cesium atomic clocks → development of hydrogen maser clocks →
knownFor	advances in nuclear magnetic resonance techniques → contributions to atomic clocks → development of the separated oscillatory field method →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Physical Society → National Academy of Sciences →
notableStudent	Daniel Kleppner → Jerome Karle →
notableWork	separated oscillatory field method →
occupation	physicist → university teacher →
participatedIn	Manhattan Project →
placeOfBirth	Washington, D.C. →
placeOfDeath	Wayland, Massachusetts →
positionHeld	Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University → president of the American Physical Society →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Cambridge, Massachusetts → New York City →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Project Alberta ("Norman F. Ramsey Jr.") →	chiefOfStaff
Daniel Kleppner →	coAuthor
Daniel Kleppner →	doctoralAdvisor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory →	employed
President's Science Advisory Committee ("Norman F. Ramsey") →	member
I. I. Rabi →	notableStudent