Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. was an American physicist who 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. A physics professor at Harvard University for most of his career, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Among his other accomplishments are helping to found the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab.
Norman Ramsey Jr.
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter was specifically designed to take advantage of the new radar.
Ramsey signs the Fat Man used at Nagasaki.
Ramsey's Los Alamos badge
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island a hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven. It was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base. Located approximately 60 miles east of New York City, it is managed by Stony Brook University and Battelle Memorial Institute.
View of Brookhaven National Laboratory campus, with the High Flux Beam Reactor in the foreground
Soldiers during World War I at the Camp Upton site, which would in 1947 be repurposed as BNL
Satoshi Ozaki posed with a magnet for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in 1991
Exterior of National Synchrotron Light Source II facility in 2012, during a Brookhaven National Laboratory "Summer Sundays" public tour.
