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    Bridgman, Percy Williams (1882–1961)

    Percy Bridgman
    American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize for Physics for his investigation of substances at very high pressures. His work led to the production of synthetic diamonds (1955). In the philosophy of science he championed the view that scientific terms are only meaningful if they can be given "operational definitions."


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