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'''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. Dicke was never awarded a Nobel Prize despite being one of the greatest American physicist ever. [[Andrew Schlafly]], founder of [[Conservapedia]] and himself a critique of Einstein's [[Theory of Relativity]], claims that  Dicke was denied the prize:

'''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. Dicke never received the Nobel Prize; however, he was awarded the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=104 |title=National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science |publisher=Nsf.gov |accessdate=2014-01-02}}</ref> In 1973 he was awarded the [[Comstock Prize in Physics]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=Comstock>{{cite web|title=Comstock Prize in Physics|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=13 February 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195326/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock|archivedate=29 December 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

 

[[Andrew Schlafly]], founder of [[Conservapedia]] and himself a critique of Einstein's [[Theory of Relativity]], claims that  Dicke was denied the prize:

{{cquote|''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]])''|||Andrew Schlafly}}

{{cquote|''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]])''|||Andrew Schlafly}}