To notify the community about a colleagueâs death, subscribers can visit http: //www.physicstoday.org/obits, where they can submit obituaries (up to 750 words), comments, and reminiscences. Each month recently posted material will be summarized here, in print. Select online obituaries will later appear in print. Norman Foster Ramsey Jr Norman Foster Ramsey Jr, a towering ï¬gure of physics in the second half of the 20th century, died on 4 November 2011 at age 96. Ramsey was widely esteemed for his scientiï¬c contributions, his achievements as a statesman of science, and his teaching. He is best known for inventing the separated oscillatory ï¬eld method and the hydrogen maser, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1989, but those were just two of his many contributions. He helped to found Brookhaven National Laboratory and was instrumental in the creation of Fermilab. During his fourdecade career at Harvard University, he supervised 84 PhD students. He continued to teach at Harvard and elsewhere long after his retirement in 1986. Ramsey was born on 27 August 1915 in Washington, DC. He graduated from Columbia University in 1935 with a degree in mathematics, attended Cambridge University in the UK for two years, and returned
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Norman Foster Ramsey Jr
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American Institute of Physics – Feb 1, 2012
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