Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. Wikipedia
Born: August 27, 1915, Washington, D.C.
Died: November 4, 2011 (age 96 years), Wayland, MA
Education: Columbia University (1931–1940), University of Cambridge (1935–1937), and Leavenworth Senior High School (1930)
Parents: Norman F. Ramsey
Other notable students: Sunney Chan (post doc)
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