| − | '''Robert Henry Dicke''' (1916-1997) was one of the most accomplished American-born [[physicist]]s and experimental physicists in history. He made significant contributions to [[radar]], atomic physics, [[cosmology]], quantum optics, gravity physics, and astrophysics. Like the great British physicist [[Fred Hoyle]], Dicke paid a heavy price for criticizing a theory favored by [[liberals]] (in the case of Dicke, he criticized the [[Theory of Relativity]]; in the case of Hoyle, he criticized the [[theory of evolution]]): Dicke was denied a Nobel Prize despite being the greatest American physicist ever. | + | '''Robert Henry Dicke''' (1916-1997) was one of the most accomplished American-born [[physicist]]s and experimental physicists in history. He made significant contributions to [[radar]], atomic physics, [[cosmology]], quantum optics, gravity physics, and astrophysics. Like the great British physicist [[Fred Hoyle]], Dicke paid a heavy price for criticizing a theory favored by [[liberals]] (in the case of Dicke, he criticized the [[Theory of Relativity]]; in the case of Hoyle, he criticized the [[theory of evolution]]): |
| | A tribute by his colleagues, Princeton Professors W. Happer, P. J. E. Peebles, and D. T. Wilkinson, summed up Professor Dicke's career as follows:<ref>http://bob.nap.edu/html/biomems/rdicke.html (emphasis added).</ref> | | A tribute by his colleagues, Princeton Professors W. Happer, P. J. E. Peebles, and D. T. Wilkinson, summed up Professor Dicke's career as follows:<ref>http://bob.nap.edu/html/biomems/rdicke.html (emphasis added).</ref> |