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Professor Percy Williams Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for 1946, will leave New York by plane today for Stockholm, where the Nobel awards will be formally presented in a three-day ceremony, starting December...
Professor Bridgman's itinerary includes a stopover in Scotland, where he will deliver a lecture to students at the University of Edinburgh. He will leave Edinburgh on December 7 for London, and from the will go directly to the Swedish capital. While in Stockholm, he will give another speech, in order to fulfill a stipulation that all Nobel prize-winners deliver a lecture within six months after receiving the award...
...three Americans to be honored in last month's awards by the Swedish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Bridgman is renowned for his work in high pressure research, and has been credited with the discovery...
Physics. To non-nuclear Professor Percy Williams Bridgman of Harvard, 64, authority on high-pressure phenomena. He proved that nearly all substances change profoundly if squeezed hard enough. Water existed as ice in Bridgman's apparatus, even when its temperature was above the normal boiling point. Soft and slippery graphite (under 1,500,000 pounds of pressure per square inch) gets hard enough to make a dent in steel...
Last night Bridgman had no comment to make on the award, as congratulatory messages and telegrams began to reach him at his home. He stated, however, that the award could have nothing whatever to do with the work he did for the Government, and dampened rumors that he had been one of the "silent" men behind the creation of the atom bomb by disclosing that his war work had consisted of experiments testing the effects of high pressure on steel used in armor plating. Bridgman deprecated the value of this work and said that it had been discontinued even before...