Percy Bridgman
- Born: April 21, 1882 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Died: August 21, 1961 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Education
- 1904: AB, Harvard University
- 1905: AM, Harvard University
- 1908: PhD, Harvard University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1904–1913: Harvard University, Assistant in Physics
- 1913–1919: Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1919–1926: Harvard University, Professor of Physics
- 1926–1950: Harvard University, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
- 1950–1954: Harvard University, Higgins University Professor
- 1954–1961: Harvard University, Higgins University Professor, Emeritus
Other Positions
- 1942–1942: American Physical Society, President
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Harvard University Archives, Pusey Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Online Finding Aid
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Edwin C. Kemble and Francis Birch, "Percy Williams Bridgman: 1882-1961", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
P. W. Bridgman, Reflections of a Physicist (New York: Philosophical Library, 1950)
Maila L. Walter, Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)
