ABSTRACT
Bridgman spent the largest part of his scientific life involved with investigations in physics; he specialized in the study of materials at high pressures and their thermodynamic behavior. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1946 for his extensive work in this area, espe cially for his investigations of the properties of matter at pressures up to 100,000 atm. These properties included electrical and thermal con ductivity, tensile strength, viscosity, and compressibility in a great variety of compounds.
