Glen Rebka

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Glen Anderson Rebka, Jr. (born September 19, 1931 in Cincinnati , † January 13, 2015 in Laramie ) was an American physicist .

Rebka received his doctorate from Harvard in 1961 , where he has studied since 1953. From 1961 he was at Yale University and from 1970 at the University of Wyoming , where he headed the physics faculty from 1983 to 1991 and was Professor Emeritus since 1997 . In addition, he worked a lot as an experimental elementary particle physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory . At the University of Wyoming he built the astrophysics faculty.

In 1960 Robert Pound and his assistant Glen Rebka demonstrated the gravitational redshift of the radiation from a gamma source in the gravitational field of the earth in an experiment ( Pound-Rebka experiment ) with the help of the Mössbauer effect . Pound and Rebka used the only 22.6 m high Jefferson Tower at Harvard University for their experiment . The work was the subject of Rebka's dissertation at Pound.

Pound and Rebka received the Eddington Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1965 . In 1997 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

literature

  • Presidential Address on the Award of the Eddington Medal to Professor RV Pound and Dr. GA Rebka. In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society . Volume 6, pp. 123-124
  • Robert V. Pound: Weighing Photons . In: Physics in Perspective . tape 2 , no. 3 , 2000, pp. 224-268 , doi : 10.1007 / s000160050045 . , and Robert V. Pound: Weighing Photons . In: Physics in Perspective . tape 3 , no. 1 , 2001, p. 4-51 , doi : 10.1007 / s000160050055 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Michalak: Glen Rebka. In: Physics Today. January 16, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2017 (English, doi: 10.1063 / PT.5.6123 ).
  2. ^ RV Pound, GA Rebka, Jr .: Apparent Weight of Photons . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 4 , April 1, 1960, p. 337-341 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.4.337 .
personal data
SURNAME Rebka, Glen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rebka, Glen Anderson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2015
Place of death Laramie, Wyoming