P. W. Bridgman biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of P. W. Bridgman

Author Name:

P. W. Bridgman

Born As:

Percy Williams Bridgman

Other Names:

Born:

21 Apr 1882

Died:

20 Aug 1961




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Physicist                          
                          
                          
1946 - Nobel Prize in Physics                          
Bridgman committed suicide by gunshot after living with metastatic cancer for some time. His suicide note read in part, "It isn't decent for society to make a man do this thing himself. Probably this is the last day I will be able to do it myself."[2] Bridgman's words have been quoted by many on both sides of the assisted suicide debate.