- Glen
Anderson Rebka Jr. (September 19, 1931, Cincinnati –
January 13, 2015, Laramie) was an
American physicist.
Rebka attained a
doctorate 1961 at Harvard...
- The Pound–
Rebka experiment monitored frequency shifts in
gamma rays as they rose and fell in the
gravitational field of the Earth. The
experiment tested...
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Pound and Glen
Rebka used this
effect to
prove the red
shift of
gamma radiation in the
gravitational field of the Earth; this Pound–
Rebka experiment was...
- of
gravitational time
dilation was
first confirmed directly by the Pound–
Rebka experiment in 1959, and
later refined by
Gravity Probe A and
other experiments...
- they
agree on the
ratio of the difference. In 1959,
Robert Pound and Glen
Rebka measured the very
slight gravitational redshift in the
frequency of light...
- 24–26; Misner,
Thorne &
Wheeler 1973, § 38.5 Pound–
Rebka experiment, see
Pound &
Rebka 1959,
Pound &
Rebka 1960;
Pound &
Snider 1964; a list of
further experiments...
-
discover nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and who
devised the
famous Pound–
Rebka experiment supporting general relativity. He
became a
tenured professor...
- a
gravitational redshift. Such an
effect was
verified in the 1959 Pound–
Rebka experiment. In a case such as this,
where the
gravitational field is uniform...
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scientific community. In 1959,
American physicists Robert Pound and Glen
Rebka performed an
experiment in
which they used
gamma rays to
confirm the prediction...
- has been
confirmed in many
tests of
general relativity, such as the Pound–
Rebka experiment and
Gravity Probe A. In the Hafele–Keating experiment, there...
