Bridgman, '46 Nobel Prize Winner, Leaves Today for Stockholm

Professor Percy Williams Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for 1946, will leave New York by plane today for Stockholm, where the Nobel awards will be formally presented in a three-day ceremony, starting December 10.

Professor Bridgman's itinerary includes a stopover in Scotland, where he will deliver a lecture to students at the University of Edinburgh. He will leave Edinburgh on December 7 for London, and from the will go directly to the Swedish capital. While in Stockholm, he will give another speech, in order to fulfill a stipulation that all Nobel prize-winners deliver a lecture within six months after receiving the award.

One of three Americans to be honored in last month's awards by the Swedish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Bridgman is renowned for his work in high pressure research, and has been credited with the discovery of "dry ice."