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Norman F. Ramsey
Full Name of the recipient | Norman F. Ramsey |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1989 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Hans G. Dehmelt (25.0%) Wolfgang Paul (25.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | Washington, DC, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 27 August 1915 |
Age at the time of Award | 73 years |
Place of Death | Wayland, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 4 November 2011 |