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'''Robert Henry Dicke''' (1916-1997) was one of the greatest [[physicist]]s in history.  He made significant contributions to [[radar]], atomic physics, [[cosmology]], quantum optics, gravity physics, and astrophysics. Dicke was the most accomplished American-born physicist and yet was denied the Nobel Prize, despite winning numerous merit-based awards.<ref>He won the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1970. {{cite web|url=https://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}}<br>In 1973 he was awarded the [[Comstock Prize in Physics]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. {{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>

'''Robert Henry Dicke''' (1916-1997) was one of the greatest [[physicist]]s in history.  He made significant contributions to [[radar]], atomic physics, [[cosmology]], quantum optics, gravity physics, and astrophysics. Dicke was the most accomplished American-born physicist and yet was denied the Nobel Prize, despite winning numerous merit-based awards.<ref>He won the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1970. {{cite web|url=https://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}}<br>In 1973 he was awarded the [[Comstock Prize in Physics]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. {{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>

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]]).

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]]). Both Dicke and Hoyle were passed over for the Nobel Prize such that it was awarded to arguably less-deserving scientists for landmark work done by Dicke and Hoyle (see further discussion below).

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>