Norman Ramsey Jr.

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.
Born	(1915-08-27)August 27, 1915 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	November 4, 2011(2011-11-04) (aged 96) Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Columbia University (BA, PhD) University of Cambridge (BA)
Known for	Ramsey interferometry
Relatives	Anne Ramsey (cousin)
Awards	Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1960) Davisson-Germer Prize (1974) IEEE Medal of Honor (1984) Rabi Prize (1985) Rumford Prize (1985) Oersted Medal (1988) National Medal of Science (1988) Nobel Prize in Physics (1989) UNSW Dirac Medal (1990) Vannevar Bush Award (1995)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Columbia University Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Isidor Isaac Rabi
Doctoral students	William Nierenberg (1947) Francis F. Chen (1954) Noel Corngold (1954) Daniel Kleppner (1959) Howard Berg (1964) David J. Wineland (1971) Richard R. Freeman (1973) Geoffrey L. Greene (1977) Blayne Heckel (1981)
Other notable students	Sunney Chan (post doc)

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method (see Ramsey interferometry), 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.