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Also Known As P. W. Bridgman
Born April 21, 1882 • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Died August 20, 1961 (aged 79) • New Hampshire
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Notable Works “The Logic of Modern Physics”
Subjects Of Study compressibility • high-pressure phenomena • liquid • phase change • pressure • solid • temperature • Bridgman-Stockbarger method

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