Word: ramseyer
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...observations. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year celebrates the contributions of three scientists who have spent their careers elevating precision measurement to a high art. "It's nice to know that this type of work can be appreciated," said one of the recipients, distinguished Harvard University physicist Norman Ramsey. Upon hearing the news, Ramsey, an athletic 74-year-old who recently returned from a trek in Nepal, admits that he was startled. "Are you sure?" he asked the first reporter who called...
...Ramsey was awarded half of the $470,000 prize for his contributions in pioneering a method of measuring the minute movements that occur inside atoms. Ramsey's so-called separated oscillatory fields technique did not just become a valuable scientific tool; it also provided the basis for modern-day atomic clocks. Like the ticking of a pendulum in a grandfather clock, the rapid-fire (9,192,631.770 times a second) oscillations of cesium-atom nuclei, spinning like tops inside a magnetic field, can be used to pace off time...
...when the reporter later called Ramsey's office looking for some background information, Ramsey himself answered the phone and invited the reporter to his office to pick up the documents...
...course, Ramsey's colleagues and former students said that the 74-year-old professor has always prided himself on accessibility...
Some People Are Never satisfied: Ramsey is the 31st Harvard professor ever to win a Nobel prize and the ninth to win one in physics. It may be high by most universities' standards, but Harvard President Derek C. Bok wasn't resting on any laurels. At a reception for Ramsey yesterday afternoon, he said, "We can never have too many...