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Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (born August 27 , 1915 , in Washington, DC ) is an American physicist . A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission . He 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 . Ramsey shared the prize with Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul .
Ramsey earned his B.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1935 and 1940, respectively. He stayed on as a member of the Columbia faculty until 1947, when he moved to Harvard.
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