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Percy Williams Bridgman '04, Nobel Prize Physicist and Higgins University Professor, will retire at the end of this academic year, it was announced yesterday...
...Bridgman has been at the University as student and teacher for 54 years...
...addition to the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he won in 1946. Bridgman has received the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute. His other honors included the Roozeboom Medal, the Comstock Prize, and the Research Corporation Award...
...Bridgman entered the College in 1900, received his A.B. degree in 1904, his A.M. in 1905, and his Ph.D. in 1908. In 1926 he was appointed Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and in 1951 he was made a University Professor. The latter capacity has entitled him to teach and carry out research in any department or school of the University...
...Theodore W. Richards, chemistry, 1914; George R. Minot and William P. Murphy, medicine, 1934; Percy W. Bridgman, physics, 1946; Edward M. Purcell, physics, 1952; Fritz A. Lipmann, medicine...