Speaker
James E. Faller
(JILA, the University of Colorado, and the University of Glasgow)
Description
In the Fall of 1955, Bob Dicke, returned to Princeton from his Sabbatical at Harvard and brought with him the thought that the experimental basis of general relativity was thin and that much more was needed including a modern high precision version of the Eötvös experiment. To this end, he established a program of carrying out high-precision gravitational experiments at Princeton. The bulk of my talk will be about this period and my good fortune and experiences working in Bob’s group at that time. The talk will also have a prelude and a postlude in which I will discuss other, but related, scientific experiments and issues.
Author
James E. Faller
(JILA, the University of Colorado, and the University of Glasgow)