American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

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. A physics professor at Harvard University for most of his career, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Among his other accomplishments are helping to found the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab.

Born

1915

August 27

Died

Living

Era

1910s

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1915 Born

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410 The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
1232 Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the samurai class.
1353 War of the Straits and Sardinian–Aragonese war: The Battle of Alghero results in a crushing victory of the allied Aragonese and Venetian fleet over the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured.

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The world in 1915

When Norman arrived

april 18 World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.
april 22 World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
april 24 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
april 25 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

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Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alexander Farnese 1545–1592 Duke of Parma (died 1592) Alice Coltrane 1937–2007 American pianist and composer (died 2007) Charles Fleischer 1950– American comedian and actor Friedrich Martens 1845–1909 Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (died 1909) Giorgio Mitrovich 1795–1885 Maltese politician (died 1885) Mario 1986– American singer and actor Mase 1975– American rapper, songwriter and pastor Péter Boross 1928– Hungarian lawyer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of Hungary

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Claudia Jones 1915–1964 Trinidad-British journalist and activist (born 1915) Ethel Rosenberg 1915–1953 American spy (born 1915) Germán Valdés 1915– Mexican actor, singer, and producer (died 1973) Jon Hall 1915–1979 American actor and director (born 1915) Joseph Ransohoff 1915–2001 American surgeon and educator (born 1915) Kiyosi Itô 1915–2008 Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1915) Leonard Goodwin 1915–2008 British protozoologist (died 2008) Les Paul 1915–2009 American guitarist, songwriter, and inventor (born 1915) M. F. Husain 1915–2011 Indian painter and director (born 1915)

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