Norman F. Ramsey (1915-2011)

Awarded the Prize “for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method its use in the hydrogen maser other atomic clocks.”

American experimental physicist. Ramsey was born on August 27, 1915 in Washington, D.C. He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1940. Since 1947, he was employed at Harvard University, becoming Higgins Professor of Physics in 1966. He was the first Chairman of Physics Division of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was Chairman of Universities Research President of the American Physical Society. Ramsey died on November 4, 2011 in Wayl, Massachusetts.