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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectRobert H. Dicke
Dates
May 16, 1916 – March 4, 1997
Authorized Form of Name
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Additional Forms of Names
Dicke, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1916-1997
Dicke, Robert Henry
Biography
Abstract
Robert H. Dicke was Emeritus Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University (1946-1997). Other institutional affiliations included the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory. His research interests included atomic physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.
Important Dates
May 16, 1916Birth, St. Louis (Mo.).
1939Obtained AB, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1941Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester (N.Y.).
1941 – 1946Researcher, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
1946 – 1997Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics (1946-1957); Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics (1957-1975); Chair, Department of Physics (1967-1970); Albert Einstein Professor of Science (1975-1984); and Emeritus Albert Einstein Professor of Science (1984-1997), Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1954 – 1955Visiting Professor, Harvard University.
1959 – 1961Member, Advisory Panel on Physics, National Science Foundation.
1961 – 1963Chair, Advisory Committee on Atomic Physics, National Bureau of Standards.
1963 – 1970Member (1963-1970) and Chair (1963-1966), Committee on Physics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1967Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1967 – 1969Chair, Advisory Committee on Radio Astronomy, National Science Foundation.
1970Awarded National Medal of Science.
1970 – 1976Member, National Science Board.
1975 – 1980Member, Visiting Committee, National Bureau of Standards.
March 4, 1997Death, Princeton (N.J.).
Occupation
Astrophysicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
PhD Advisor at University of Rochester, "Inelastic Scattering of Protons and Nuclear Energy Levels."
Colleagues
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Brown, G. E. (Gerald Edward), 1926-
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Gross, David J. (David Jonathan)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at Princeton University.
Taylor, Joseph H. (Joseph Hooton)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wightman, A. S. (Arthur Strong), 1922-2013
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Additional
Fellow graduate students at University of Rochester.
Hahn, E. L. (Erwin Louis), 1921-
Hall, John Stuart, 1942-
Harvey, A. L. (Alexander Louis), 1917-
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Schwarzschild, Martin
Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Wittke, James P.
Institutions
Major Positions
Harvard University. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory
Researcher.
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Obtained AB; Assistant Professor to Professor; Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics; Albert Einstein Professor of Science; and Emeritus Albert Einstein Professor of Science.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member.
National Science Board (U.S.)
Member.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Member, Advisory Panel on Physics and Chair, Advisory Committee on Radio Astronomy.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Member and Chair, Committee on Physics.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
Member, Visiting Committee and Chair, Advisory Committee on Atomic Physics.
University of Rochester. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Obtained PhD in 1941 in Physics.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
General interest session [sound recording] / 1972 April 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Dicke, 1988 January 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert H. Dicke, 1975 November 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Henry Dicke, 1983 May 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Henry Dicke, 1985 June 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Research Corporation maser and laser patents collection, 1956-1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert H. Dicke papers, 1939-1996 (bulk 1953-1990).
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University
1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Robert H. Dicke response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Selected papers [sound recording], 1967.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Seminar for science writers [sound recording], 1969 January 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
AIP Center for History of Physics responses to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Alex Harvey letters from prominent physicists, 1960-1973.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Allen Shenstone autobiography, 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Arno A. Penzias papers, 1931-2006 (bulk 1963-1998).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
John A. Wheeler papers, 1880-2008.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Oral history interview P. J. E. Peebles, 1984 September 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1979 June 18 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1984 January 28 and 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles W. Misner, 2001 May 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with D. W. Sciama, 1989 January 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Todd Wilkinson, 1984 September 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Erwin Louis Hahn, 1986 August 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Peebles, 1988 January 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Pleister Wittke, 1983 September 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Jim Peebles, 2002 April 4 and 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John A. Armstrong, 1984 October 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John S. Hall, 1979 February 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Morrel H. Cohen, 1981 March 31 and June 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Nicolaas Bloembergen, 1983 June 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Rainer Weiss, 2000 May 10.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral History interview with Robert V. Pound, 2003 May 22 and 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The Decision to Build the Very Large Array, 1975 May 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Woodruff T. Sullivan papers, 1946-2009.
Archives
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Published Resources
Author
Gravitation and the universe [by] Robert H. Dicke.
Introduction to quantum mechanics, by Robert H. Dicke and James P. Wittke.
Principles of microwave circuits / edited by C.G. Montgomery, R.H. Dicke, E.M. Purcell.
The theoretical significance of experimental relativity / R. H. Dicke.
Subject
"Robert Henry Dicke: 1916-1997", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences