Robert Pound

Robert Vivian Pound ( born May 16, 1919 in Ridgeway, Ontario, † 12 April, 2010 Belmont ) is a Canadian-American physicist.

Pound studied at the University at Buffalo (Bachelor 1941). During World War II he was in the research on the Sonar ( Submarine Signal Company 1941/42 ) and in radar research at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( until 1946 ). In 1945, he worked as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, where he was an Assistant Professor in 1948 and Professor in 1968 (Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics ). 1968 to 1972 he was faced with the physics faculty at Harvard. He retired in 1989.

In 1951 he was a visiting scientist at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University ( as a Fulbright scholar ), 1980 Merton College, Oxford, and in 1973 a visiting professor at the College de France. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Groningen ( Zernike Professor 1982), at the University of Florida ( 1987) and a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (1986 /87) and at the University of Colorado at Boulder on the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics ( JILA ).

Robert Pound dismissed in 1962 together with his assistant Glen Rebka in an experiment (Pound - Rebka experiment ) using the Mössbauer effect, the gravitational redshift of the radiation of a gamma source in the gravitational field of the earth after.

Pound and Rebka used for their experiment to only 22.6 m high Jefferson Tower at Harvard University.

In the 1940s, was on the team at Harvard by Edward Mills Purcell, which demonstrated the nuclear magnetic resonance ( Purcell was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1952 ). In 1951, he banged Purcell an experiment to generating negative temperatures before ( population inversion ).

Pound was for his experimental and mechanical skill known ( but was also a good theorist ). As a young man he built a car horn, with which he could send Morse code, and he later built a lawn mower after the hovercraft principle.

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