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). |