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- Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist. He was honored in 1989 for developing the separated oscillatory field method of investigating atomic structure, a discovery that led to the atomic clock and to the M.R.I. technology used in medical diagnostics.
During WW II, he worked at the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory and begining in 1943 was at Los Alamos, New Mexico, as part of the Manhattan Project. After the conflict Dr. Ramsey was instrumental in founding the Brookhaven Laboratory on Long Island and the Fermi National Research Laboratory of Batavia, Illinois; in 1947 he accepted a professorship at Harvard begining an association of more than 60 years and in 1949 commenced the study that would lead to his Nobel Prize. His technique, called the "Ramsey Method" by everybody but him, would result in the 1967 rolling out of the atomic clock and the ever expanding uses for the M.R.I. In 1960 he developed a second type of atomic clock called the hydrogen maser which forms the basis for today's G.P.S. systems. Dr. Ramsey reached age mandated retirement in 1986 but remained at Harvard in Emeritus status well into his 90s, his final project involving research into the physical shape of neutrons.
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1915 - 2011 (96 years)
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