"September 1959 to September 1960—a year with great portents for Einstein's general theory of relativity. ...a paper by Robert V. Pound and Glen A. Rebka, Jr. ...entitled "Apparent Weight of Photons"... described the first successful laboratory measurement of the... gravitational red shift of light... A few months later, in June 1960... there appeared a paper by... Roger Penrose... "A Approach to General Relativity." ...[which] outlined a very elegant and streamlined technique for solving certain problems in general relativity. ...Later that summer ... ...[put] the finishing touches on his Ph.D. thesis ..."Mach's Principle and a Varying Gravitational Constant." ...[which] presented the equations for ...an alternative to Einstein's ...a "scaler-tensor" theory of gravity ...[eventually] known as the ."
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