1959
Gravitational Redshift
Rebka works with Pound on the laboratory detection of gravitational redshift
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Harvard University in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Rebka works with Pound on the laboratory detection of gravitational redshift
Measures gravitational redshift with Glen Rebka using the Mossbauer effect.
Pound measures gravitational redshift on Earth and tests a key prediction of general relativity
Confirms gravitational redshift in a laboratory test of general relativity.
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