biography
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Dicke, Robert H(enry)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1916–97)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He studied physics at Princeton and Rochester universities, and spent his career at Princeton from 1946. He deduced in 1964 that a ‘big bang’ origin of the universe should have left an observable remnant of microwave radiation; this was detected by Penzias and Wilson. In the 1960s he carried out important work on gravitation, including the proposal that the gravitational constant (G) slowly decreases with time (the Brans–Dicke theory, 1961). |
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