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Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

1915 - 2011

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Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method (see Ramsey interferometry), which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. A physics professor at Harvard University for most of his career, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Among his other accomplishments are helping to found the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. is the 69th most popular physicist (up from 220th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from United States (up from 880th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Physicist.

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. is most famous for being the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize in any field. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 at the age of 31 for his work in quantum physics.

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Among physicists, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. ranks 69 out of 851. Before him are Andrei Sakharov, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Max Born, Charles Glover Barkla, Paul Dirac, and Léon Foucault. After him are Philipp Lenard, Lev Landau, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Ludwig Boltzmann, Max von Laue, and Johannes Diderik van der Waals.

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Among people born in 1915, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. ranks 10. Before him are Charles H. Townes, Frank Sinatra, Roland Barthes, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, and Moshe Dayan. After him are Orson Welles, Arthur Miller, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., W. Arthur Lewis, Eli Wallach, and David Rockefeller. Among people deceased in 2011, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. ranks 9. Before him are Muammar Gaddafi, Wangari Maathai, Václav Havel, Elizabeth Taylor, Osama bin Laden, and Otto von Habsburg. After him are Cesária Évora, Peter Falk, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, and Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. ranks 210 out of 20,380. Before him are Noah Webster (1758), Denzel Washington (1954), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), James Monroe (1758), Robert Redford (1936), and Pearl S. Buck (1892). After him are Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Mariah Carey (1969), Jon Voight (1938), David Hasselhoff (1952), Kevin Costner (1955), and Amelia Earhart (1897).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. ranks 6. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Charles H. Townes (1915), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Richard Feynman (1918), and Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932). After him are Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882).

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