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Name
  
Robert Pound


Role
  
Physicist

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Died
  
April 12, 2010, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

Education
  
University at Buffalo (1937–1940)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, National Medal of Science for Physical Science

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Robert Vivian Pound (May 16, 1919 – April 12, 2010) was an American physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) 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.

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Pound was born in Ridgeway, Ontario.

The discovery of NMR won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1952, though, due to the limitation on the number of recipients and the simultaneous achievements of Felix Bloch's group, only two recipients were designated. In his address to recipient Ed Purcell, professor Hulthén nevertheless celebrated the "very interesting experiment you performed together with Dr. Pound", making Pound one of the only two collaborators explicitly named in the speech. 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. He was a member of the class of 1941 at the University at Buffalo.

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.

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References

Robert Pound Wikipedia


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