Robert H. Dicke
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 27 years ago |
Date of birth | May 6,1916 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | St. Louis |
Missouri | |
United States | |
Date of died | March 4,1997 |
Died | Princeton |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Spouse | Annie Currie |
Job | Astronomer |
Physicist | |
Education | Princeton University |
University of Rochester | |
Books | Gravitation and the universe |
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics | |
The theoretical significance of experimental relativity | |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States | |
Awards | National Medal of Science for Physical Science |
Elliott Cresson Medal | |
Rumford Prize | |
Comstock Prize in Physics | |
Doctor advisor | Lee Alvin DuBridge |
Known for | Inventor of the lock-in amplifier; Dicke model; Brans–Dicke theory; Dicke effect; Dicke radiometer |
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ID | 547153 |
Robert H. Dicke Life story
Robert Henry Dicke was an American astronomer and physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. He was the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University.