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...most famous application of Ramsey's work is in the atomic clock, which uses the stable internal properties of an atom to define more accurately the units of time people use every...
...Ramsey's procedure is so precise that the number of times the nucleus of a cesium atom rotates now can be measured with an accuracy of one part in a trillion...
...Ramsey's increased precision that enabled scientists to use the atomic clock for the official measurement of world time. In 1967, his method was used to redefine the second as the length of time it takes a cesium nucleus to rotate 9,192,631,770 times...
Most research in physics relies on precise measurements, and Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus Norman F. Ramsey is responsible for developing the procedure that yields the most exact measurements that have ever been made...
This general procedure was created initially by I.I. Rabi, a Nobel laureate who was Ramsey's Ph.D adviser at Columbia. Ramsey improved on Rabi's method by separating the oscillating field into two smaller fields, which increased the precision of the experiment and the accuracy of the measurement...