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Dicke was instrumental in proposing extremely sensitive tests of General Relativity.  Modern measurements of the various tests, specifically from the Mariner 6 spacecraft in 1970 and the Cassini spacecraft in 2004, show that plain Einsteinian relativity, not the Brans-Dicke theory, agrees with observation<ref name="exper"/>. Nevertheless, interest in the Brans-Dicke formulation has recently revived, in the context of dark matter / dark energy investigations.

Dicke was instrumental in proposing extremely sensitive tests of General Relativity.  Modern measurements of the various tests, specifically from the Mariner 6 spacecraft in 1970 and the Cassini spacecraft in 2004, show that plain Einsteinian relativity, not the Brans-Dicke theory, agrees with observation.<ref name="exper"/>  Nevertheless, interest in the Brans-Dicke formulation has recently revived, in the context of dark matter / dark energy investigations.

==No Nobel Prize==

==No Nobel Prize==

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 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's work was closely related to that of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first measured the [[cosmic background radiation]], though Dicke was the theorist who explained it<ref>http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9404/dicke.html</ref>. The 1978 [[Nobel Prize]] for Physics was awarded to Penzias and Wilson, but not Dicke, for this work.  Some people think that this was unfair, and that Dicke should also have won the Nobel Prize for any of his many other achievements also (such as his laser work).

Dicke's work was closely related to that of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first measured the [[cosmic background radiation]], though Dicke was the theorist who explained it.<ref>http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9404/dicke.html</ref>  The 1978 [[Nobel Prize]] for Physics was awarded to Penzias and Wilson, but not Dicke, for this work.  Some people think that this was unfair, and that Dicke should also have won the Nobel Prize for any of his many other achievements also (such as his laser work).

== References ==

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