He obtained his early education in public schools at the local city of Newton before 1900 when he entered Harvard Universityin June. He graduated A.B. at 1904, A.M. at 1905 and has been awarded his Ph.D. (Physics) in 1908 when he joined the Faculty at this University. Bridgman was successively appointed Instructor (1910), Assistant Professor (1919), prior to getting Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at 1926. He had been appointed Higgins University Professor at 1950.
His studies regarding the effects of high pressures on substances and their thermodynamic behavior commenced in 1905 and have lasted during his career. He's carried out extensive investigations on the properties of matter in pressures around 100,000 air such as a study of their compressibility, electric and thermal conductivity, tensile strength and viscosity of over a hundred unique substances. He developed a process of packaging which removed flow, and introduced different procedures of outside reinforcement to pressure vessels as greater pressures were required. Bridgman has also contributed to crystallography, in which he invented a way of growing single crystals; into the issues of electric conduction in metals, where he detected internal Peltier warmth -- a fresh electric impact; and into the doctrine of modern physics. In the latter area, he's a strong supporter of this operational perspective, considering it pointless to interpret physiological theories except as they are capable of monitoring.
Prof. Bridgman has led many papers to major scientific journals and he's the writer of Dimensional Analysis (1922), The Logic of Modern Physics (1927), The Physics of High Pressure (1931), The Thermodynamics of Electric Phenomena in Metals (1934), The Nature of Physical Theory (1936), The Intelligent Individual and Society (1938), the Character of Thermodynamics (1941), and, even more lately, Refections of some Physicist.
He's received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Stevens Institute (1934), Harvard (1939), Brooklyn Polytechnic (1941), Princeton (1950), Paris (1950), and Yale (1951). He's received the Rumford Medal (American Academy of Arts and Sciences), the Cresson Medal (Franklin Institute), the Roozeboom Medal (Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands), the Comstock Prize (National Academy of Sciences), along with the New York Award of the Research Corporation. He was a part of the American Physical Society (President, 1942), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences.
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