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Professor Dicke was a critic of the [[theory of relativity|theory of general relativity]] as formulated by [[Albert Einstein]]. Instead, Dicke supported an alternative theory with Professor Carl Brans known as the Brans-Dicke theory, which includes a scalar field in addition to the tensor field defined by general relativity. At one point in 1970, after some testing of both theories, Dicke stated publicly that he stood by his theory against Einstein's.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943324,00.html</ref> The differences between Brans-Dicke and general relativity are slight, and both explain currently observable data.
Professor Dicke was a critic of the [[theory of relativity|theory of general relativity]] as formulated by [[Albert Einstein]]. Instead, Dicke supported an alternative theory with Professor Carl Brans known as the Brans-Dicke theory, which includes a scalar field in addition to the tensor field defined by general relativity. At one point in 1970, after some testing of both theories, Dicke stated publicly that he stood by his theory against Einstein's.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943324,00.html</ref> The differences between Brans-Dicke and general relativity are slight, and both explain currently observable data.
==Biography==
Dicke was born on May 6, 1916 in St. Louis, [[Montana]]. He received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1939, as well as a doctorate from the University of Rochester in 1941. In the same year he became a staff scientist at the radiation laboratory of MIT. In 1975 he was appointed Albert Einstein professor of science and nine years later he became emeritus professor.<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/162137/Robert-H-Dicke</ref>
Dicke was closely related to the 1978 [[Nobel Prize]] for Physics. The 1978 physics prize went to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first measured the [[cosmic background radiation]], though Dicke was the theorist who explained it.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4k.htm and http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9404/dicke.html</ref> Just as the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to an underling of [[Fred Hoyle]] as a way of punishing him for embarrassing the [[theory of evolution]], it seems likely that the 1978 Nobel Prize was awarded in a manner to punish Dicke for his criticism of Relativity. Indeed, Dicke should have won the Nobel Prize for one of his many other achievements also (such as his laser work), but was similarly denied recognition.
Dicke was closely related to the 1978 [[Nobel Prize]] for Physics. The 1978 physics prize went to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first measured the [[cosmic background radiation]], though Dicke was the theorist who explained it.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4k.htm and http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9404/dicke.html</ref> Just as the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to an underling of [[Fred Hoyle]] as a way of punishing him for embarrassing the [[theory of evolution]], it seems likely that the 1978 Nobel Prize was awarded in a manner to punish Dicke for his criticism of Relativity. Indeed, Dicke should have won the Nobel Prize for one of his many other achievements also (such as his laser work), but was similarly denied recognition.