In what year was Percy W. Bridgman born?
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Percy Williams Bridgman was born on April 21, 1882, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the measurement of very high pressures. Bridgman's work on the measurement of very high pressures led to the development of the Bridgman anvil, which is a device used to generate very high pressures in a laboratory setting.
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