Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science. The Bridgman effect, the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique, and the high-pressure mineral bridgmanite are named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946, announced November 14, 1946. Percy W. Bridgman, “for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics”. Percy W. Bridgman: born 1882, Cambridge, MA, USA. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).