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Robert V. Pound, professor of Physics, and Glen A. Rebka Jr. '53 will share the 1965 Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for their experiments helping to confirm Einstein's Principle of Equivalence...
...Rebka, now an assistant professor at Yale, was a graduate student here at the time of the 1960 experiments...
...Pound and Glen K. Rebka, a graduate student, obtained measurements of the effect only five per cent removed from Einstein's calculations, with a statistical uncertainty of ten per cent...
...general method used in the experiments was first put forward by Robert V. Pound, professor of Physics, and Glenn A. Rebka, Jr. '53. Preliminary investigations have been made by Pound and Rebka at Harvard and also by Drs. J.P. Schiffer, T.E. Cranshaw and A. B. Whitemead at Harnwell, the main British center of atomic research...
Pound and Rebka, however, felt that their data had not yet yielded conclusive evidence either for or against the theory...