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Gravitational Redshift

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1959Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1959

Robert Pound1959

Harvard University · Science / Physics

Measures gravitational redshift with Glen Rebka using the Mossbauer effect.

Robert Vivian Pound1959

Harvard University · Science / Physics

Pound measures gravitational redshift on Earth and tests a key prediction of general relativity

Glen Anderson Rebka1959

Harvard University · Science / Physics

Rebka works with Pound on the laboratory detection of gravitational redshift

Names involved

Glen Anderson RebkaRobert PoundRobert Vivian Pound

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