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Professor Dicke was a critic of the theory of [[relativity]] as formulated by [[Albert Einstein]].  Instead, Dicke supported an alternative theory with Professor Carl Brans known as the Brans-Dicke theory.  At one point in 1970, after some testing of both theories, Dicke stated publicly that he stood by his theory against against Einstein's.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943324,00.html</ref>

Professor Dicke was a critic of the theory of [[relativity]] as formulated by [[Albert Einstein]].  Instead, Dicke supported an alternative theory with Professor Carl Brans known as the Brans-Dicke theory.  At one point in 1970, after some testing of both theories, Dicke stated publicly that he stood by his theory against against Einstein's.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943324,00.html</ref>

Dicke almost earned a [[Nobel Prize]] for successfully predicting and measuring the [[cosmic background radiation]]. Instead the 1978 physics prize went to a couple of phone company experimentalists who were measuring satellite interference and observed the radiation without realizing what it was.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4k.htm</ref>

Dicke was closely related to the 1978 [[Nobel Prize]] for Physics. The 1978 physics prize went to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first measured the [[cosmic background radiation]], though Dicke was the theorist who explained it, since Nobel prizes are given for discoveries.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4k.htm and http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9404/dicke.html</ref>

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