Tag: Norman Ramsey

  • Nation & World

    March memorial for Norman Ramsey

    The Department of Physics will host a memorial ceremony for Nobel laureate and former physics professor Norman Ramsey.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    A building block for GPS

    A professor emeritus of physics who died recently at 96, Norman Ramsey laid the foundation for the atomic clock, which allows scientists to measure time more precisely than ever, and is a critical component in GPS.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nobel laureate Norman Ramsey, 96

    Norman Ramsey, Harvard physics professor since 1947 and Nobel laureate in 1989, died at age 96 on Nov. 4, 2011.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Scholars venerable

    Retired Harvard faculty, some with astonishing personal stories, are windows onto a vanishing past, even as many continue to work in their fields.

    15 minutes
    Emeritus Professor Daniel Aaron