Glen Anderson Rebka Jr. (September 19, 1931,Cincinnati – January 13, 2015,Laramie) was an Americanphysicist.[1]
Rebka attained a doctorate 1961 atHarvard, where he began study in 1953. Starting from 1961 he was atYale University and starting from 1970 at theUniversity of Wyoming, where he was from 1983 to 1991 department head of the physics faculty and became in 1997 professor emeritus. In addition to his academic career he did much work as an experimental elementary-particle physicist atLos Alamos National Laboratory. At the University of Wyoming he built up the astrophysics faculty.
In 1960Robert Pound carried out together with his assistant Glen Rebka an experiment, thePound–Rebka experiment, using theMössbauer effect to measure thegravitational redshift of the radiation from agamma source in thegravitation field of planet Earth.[2][3] Pound and Rebka used atHarvard University the Jefferson tower, which is only 22.6 meters tall. The work was part of Rebka's thesis with Pound as thesis advisor.
Pound and Rebka received in 1965 theEddington medal of theRoyal Astronomical Society.[4]
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