Ramsey, Norman F., Jr.

Ramsey, Norman F. (Foster), Jr. (1915–  ) physicist; born in Washington, D.C. He taught at the University of Illinois (1940–42) and Columbia University (1942–47) before joining Harvard (1947). Influenced by his graduate adviser, I. I. Rabi, he pursued his interest in the atom, sharing the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research leading to the development of the cesium atomic clock (1960).