• Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (January 27, 1903 – August 26, 1961) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical...
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    Starting with Kennard's derivation of position-momentum uncertainty, Howard Percy Robertson developed a formulation for arbitrary Hermitian operator operators...
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    widespread and rapid acceptance. It was later shown by Howard Percy Robertson (1949) and others (see Robertson–Mansouri–Sexl test theory), that it is possible...
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  • and von Neumann, based on a letter of the latter to his friend Howard Percy Robertson.) Andrzej Lasota, Michael C. Mackey, Chaos, Fractals, and Noise:...
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    University of Munich instead. In Munich, he found two more Americans, Howard Percy Robertson and Edward Condon. Sommerfeld accepted Rabi as a postdoctoral researcher...
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    to dissuade the Americans from taking such action. The physicist Howard Percy Robertson was director of the department for science in the British Zone;...
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  • which also includes the standard model and general relativity. Howard Percy Robertson (1949) extended the Lorentz transformation by adding additional...
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    generators are multiplied by a factor of the imaginary unit i = √−1. Howard Percy Robertson and others showed that the Lorentz transformation can also be derived...
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  • dilation, also refutes the emission theory of light. As shown by Howard Percy Robertson, the complete Lorentz transformation can be derived, when the Ives–Stillwell...
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  • all parties now being deceased—was the combative cosmologist, Howard Percy Robertson, pointed out the error described below, and the manuscript was returned...
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