Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

American physicist

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1915

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 04-Nov-2011

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.
(August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) 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.