| Norman F. Ramsey  AKA Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
Born: 27-Aug-1915
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Energy levels of atoms Awarded one-half of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Father: Norman F. Ramsey (US Army ordnance officer, Brig. Gen.)
Mother: (mathematics professor, University of Kansas)
Wife: Elinor Stedman Jameson (m. 1940, d. 1983, four daughters)
Wife: Ellie Welch (m. 1985)
University: Columbia University (1935)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1940)
University: DSc, Cambridge University (1954)
Professor: Harvard University (1947-66)
Professor: Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard University (1966-86)
Administrator: Trustee, Rockefeller University (1976-80)
Manhattan Project
US Atomic Energy Commission Advisory Committee (1960-72)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Trustee (1962-85)
American Physical Society President (1978-79)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
National Academy of Sciences
American Philosophical Society
French Academy of Sciences
Scientists and Engineers for America
Phi Beta Kappa Society President (1984-88)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1989 (with Wolfgang Paul and Hans G. Dehmelt)
E. O. Lawrence Award 1960
IEEE Medal of Honor 1984
Rumford Prize 1985
Oersted Medal 1988
National Medal of Science 1988
Vannevar Bush Award 1995
Author of books:
Experimental Nuclear Physics (1953, physics, with Emilio Segrè)
Nuclear Moments (1953, physics)
Molecular Beams (1956, physics)
Quick Calculus (1965, with D. Kleppner)
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