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Robert Henry Dicke
Robert Henry Dicke
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T WILKINSON BOB DICKE CONTRIBUTED to advances in radar, atomic physics, quantum optics, gravity physics, astrophysics, en c!
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Einstein to general relativity. In this theory the mass distribution does influence inertial motion, but it has no effect on local laboratory measurements.
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Bob returnee! to the University of Rochester for graduate work in nuclear physics.
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Among the results was his microwave radiometer, which he took to Floricia to demonstrate that humid air radiates strongly near I-cm wavelength, en c! hence that humic!
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Insteac! of raclio astronomy Bob spent the next clecacle on the rich physics of the quantum mechanical interaction of racliation en c!
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Unswayed by careless assumptions of others that because the g-value of free electrons could not be measured in an atomic beam machine there was some fundamental reason the g-value could not be measured at all,
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for R Mossbauer to show that at sufficiently low temperatures the Doppler broadening of certain gammaray lines conic!
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Among his gravity experiments Bob was most prouc! of the modern Eotvos experiment and the solar oblateness measurement as a probe of the solar interior.
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hypothesis, that the test of general relativity theory from the rate of precession of the perihelion of the orbit of the planet Mercury may be compromiser! by the departure from a spherical mass distribution in the Sun.~4 This wouIc!
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The helium abunciance in a star affects its luminosity for given mass, the mass measurement requires improver! orbital elements in older binary stars, which are likely to have closer to primeval
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The results, uncler the early leaclership of Bob's former student Carroll Alley, now significantly restrict the spatial variation of the gravitational interaction. Bob's role in the discovery of the thermal backgrounc!
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naner bv one of us on 1. 1 , 1 , 1 , ~ 1 1 1 J signs element proctucuon in a hot Big Bang cosmology, written before we knew Gamow aireacly hac!
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Vane. Atmospheric absorption measurements with a microwave radiometer.
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Cosmic blackbody radiation. Astrophys.
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Krotkov. Precision optical tracking of artificial satellites.
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The Big Bang cosmology Enigmas and nostrums. In General Relativity, an Einstein Centenary Survey, eds.
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