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Norman Foster Ramsey

(27 Aug 1915 - )

American physicist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 for 'for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.'

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Although I am primarily an experimental physicist, theoretical physics is my hobby.

— Norman Foster Ramsey

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