Robert Pound

Robert Vivian Pound (May 6, 1919 - April 12, 2010) was a Canadian-born American physicist whose work on the effect of gravity on light provided confirmation of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and led to the development of magnetic resonance imaging. He was born in Ridgeway, Ontario, graduated from the University of Buffalo and worked at MIT during the Second World War, where he worked on radar devices. He spent his post-war career at Harvard University. His honors included the U.S. National Medal of Science and the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.