| 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 Segrč)
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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