BOSTON
Ramsey died in his sleep at a retirement home Wayland on Friday, his wife, Ellie Ramsey, said Monday.
(File/Associated Press)-FILE-in this file photo, 1989 Norman f. Ramsey received a phone call informing him of his winning the Nobel Prize in physics. Ramsey, professor emeritus of physics at Harvard University, died in his sleep in Wayland, mass., the nursing home on Friday, November 4, 2011. He was 96.
Ramsey, professor emeritus of physics at Harvard University and the old Brookline resident, wrote in his autobiography for the Nobel Peace Prize he shared with Hans Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul that he was inspired by the failure in molecular beam magnetic resonance experiments in the late 1940s to create a new technique to measure the frequency of the radiation of atoms using two electromagnetic field.
This technique is known as