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Robert H. Dicke

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 (1975–1984).

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science · American astronomer and physicist (1916–1997) · astronomer · physicist · astrophysicist · university teacher · also Robert H. Dicke, Robert Henry Dicke, Dicke

Born 6 May 1916 · Died 4 March 1997 · Q504473

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Awarded Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1992).
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Jun 1974Award
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1974).
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1997· 1 entry

Mar 4, 1997Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1997-03-04.

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1992· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1992Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1992).

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1974· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1974Documented record84% confidence

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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1974).

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1973· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1973Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1973).

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1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member

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1970· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1970Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (1970).

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Jun 15, 1970Documented record84% confidence

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Won National Medal of Science (1970).

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1970Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Dicke argued that the universe must have very nearly the critical density of matter needed to stop it expanding forever

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1967· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1967Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1967).

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Jun 15, 1967Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Rumford Prize (1967).

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1962· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1962Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1962).

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1961· 1 entry

1961Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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This led to the Brans–Dicke theory of gravitation, developed with Carl H

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1957· 1 entry

1957Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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First proposed an alternative theory of gravitation inspired by Mach's principle and Paul Dirac's large numbers hypothesis

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1956· 1 entry

1956Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Approximately two years before Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow filed their patent application, Dicke filed a patent titled "Molecular Amplification Generation Systems and Methods" with claims of how to bu

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1946· 1 entry

1946Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Returned to Princeton University, where he remained for the remainder of his career

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1945· 1 entry

1945Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And two sons, John born in 1946 and James born in 1953

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1939· 1 entry

1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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From the University of Rochester in nuclear physics

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1920· 1 entry

1920Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And as a young girl immigrated to Rochester, New York, via Australia and New Zealand, of which Annie had very fond memories

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1916· 1 entry

May 6, 1916Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1916-05-06.

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