Robert Pound
Robert Vivian Pound (May 16, 1919 – April 12, 2010)[1] was an American[2] physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance and who devised the famous Pound–Rebka experiment supporting general relativity. He became a tenured professor of physics at Harvard without ever having received a graduate degree.
Pound was born in Ridgeway, Ontario.[3]
The discovery of NMR won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1952,[citation needed] though, due to the limitation on the number of recipients and the simultaneous discovery of NMR by Felix Bloch's group,[citation needed] Pound's advisor Ed Purcell received the award on behalf of his group at Harvard.[citation needed] Pound received the National Medal of Science in 1990 for his lifetime contributions to the field of physics. Pound was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics emeritus at Harvard University.[3] He was a member of the class of 1941 at the University at Buffalo.[3]
Pound's name is also attached to the Pound–Drever–Hall technique used to lock the frequency of a laser on a stable optical cavity.
References[edit]
- ^ Hoffman, Jascha (April 19, 2010). "Robert Pound, Physicist Whose Work Advanced Medicine, Is Dead at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
- ^ http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Pound.html
- ^ a b c Bryan Marquard (April 25, 2010). "Robert Pound, 90; Harvard physicist confirmed key theory of Einstein". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
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