Bridgman

[ brij-muh n ]

/ ˈbrɪdʒ mən /

Percy Williams,1882–1961, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1946.

Example sentences from the Web for bridgman

How was he and the brothers Bridgman found guilty, without any physical evidence tying them to this heinous crime?

For Ricky Jackson, a Just Verdict—But 39 Years Too Late |Cliff Schecter |November 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Such was Bridgman's fort in what is now Vernon, and which was twice attacked by Indians, and in the second attack was destroyed.

Vermont |Rowland E. Robinson
Mr. Bridgman was on deck, to welcome them in the name of the Peary Arctic Club.

The North Pole |Robert E. Peary
The garden was laid out in the stiff, formal manner by Eyre, "an imitator of Bridgman," and contained 23 acres.

Garden-Craft Old and New |John D. Sedding

As Mr. Mason has added an &c., may we not add to these respected names, that of honest old Bridgman?

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, |Samuel Felton
Fort Bridgman faced the Licking river on the west, the stockade extending eastward.

Ned in the Block-House |Edward S. Ellis

Bridgman

/ (ˈbrɪdʒmən) /

Percy Williams . 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics