Robert H. Dicke

Details

Instance of

human

Born

6 May 1916

Died

4 March 1997

Place of birth

St. Louis

Place of death

Princeton

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Robert

Family name

Dicke

Occupation

astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Elliott Cresson Medal, National Medal of Science, Rumford Prize, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, Comstock Prize in Physics, Karl G. Jansky Lectureship, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

described by source

Physicists: Biographical Dictionary

doctoral advisor

Lee Alvin DuBridge

doctoral student

Carl H. Brans, Jim Peebles, Carl H. Brans, William Jason Morgan

educated at

Princeton University, University of Rochester

employer

Princeton University

influenced by

George Gamow, Paul Dirac

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences

topic's main category

Q10238698

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