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Bridgman, Percy W., House

Cambridge, Massachusetts
County of Middlesex.
National Register Number: 75000298
 Resource type: Building.
Property type: Domestic - single dwelling. The threat level was Satisfactory in
2004.
Certified Local Government: NO

Statement of Significance (as of designation - May 15, 1975):
This was the home of Percy W. Bridgeman, distinguished teacher and physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize for his invention of an apparatus for obtaining very high pressures, and for his discoveries in the field of high-pressure physics.


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