Norman F. Ramsey
AKA
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
Born:
27-Aug
-
1915
Birthplace:
Washington, DC
Died:
4-Nov
-
2011
Location of death:
Wayland, MA
Cause of death:
Natural Causes
Gender:
Male
Race or Ethnicity:
White
Sexual orientation:
Straight
Occupation:
Physicist
Party Affiliation:
Democratic
Nationality:
United States
Executive summary:
Energy levels of atoms
US physicist Norman F. Ramsey studied under
Isidor Isaac Rabi
, and developed the separated-oscillatory-field method in 1950, which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. For this work he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989, shared with
Wolfgang Paul
and
Hans G. Dehmelt
. He also researched high-energy particle scattering, low-energy magnetic resonance, magnetic moments, radar, nuclear forces, neutron-proton and proton-helium scattering, the rotational magnetic moments of molecules, the structural shape of nuclear particles, and the thermodynamics of energized populations of atoms and molecules.
Father:
Norman F. Ramsey (US Army ordnance officer, Brig. Gen., b. 9-Jul-1882)
Mother:
Minnie Bauer Ramsey (mathematics professor, University of Kansas)
Wife:
Elinor Stedman Jameson (m. 3-Jun-1940, d. 1983, four daughters)
Wife:
Ellie Welch (m. 1985, three stepchildren)
University: Fort Leavenworth High School, Leavenworth, KS (1931)
University:
BA Mathematics, Columbia University (1935)
University:
PhD, Columbia University (1940)
Scholar:
Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1940-43)
Scholar:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (1946-47)
Teacher:
Harvard University (1947-50)
Professor:
Harvard University (1950-66)
Professor:
Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard University (1966-86)
Administrator:
Trustee, Rockefeller University (1977-)
Presidential Medal for Merit
1947
E. O. Lawrence Award
1960
APS Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
1974
IEEE Medal of Honor
1984
APS I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
1985
Rumford Prize
1985
AIP Karl Taylor Compton Medal
1986
Oersted Medal
1988
National Medal of Science
1988
Nobel Prize for Physics
1989 (with
Wolfgang Paul
and
Hans G. Dehmelt
)
Vannevar Bush Award
1995
Manhattan Project
Los Alamos (1943-45)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Trustee, 1962-85
American Physical Society
President, 1978-79
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Institute of Physics
Chairman, 1980-86
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Trustee, 1962-86
Carnegie Institution for Science
Fellowship, 1940
Federation of American Scientists
Board of Sponsors
Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship
1937
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council
Board of Physics and Astronomy, 1985-89
NATO Official
Advanced Study Institutes
American Philosophical Society
French Academy of Sciences
Foreign Associate
Scientists and Engineers for America
Universities Research Association
President, 1966-72
US Atomic Energy Commission
Advisory Committee, 1960-72
Phi Beta Kappa Society
President, 1984-88
German Ancestry
Maternal
Scottish Ancestry
Paternal
Author of books:
Experimental Nuclear Physics
(
1953
, physics, with
Emilio Segr?
)
Nuclear Moments
(
1953
, physics)
Molecular Beams
(
1956
, physics)
Quick Calculus
(
1965
, with Daniel Kleppner)
Spectroscopy with Coherent Radiation
(
1989
, collected papers)
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