Carl H. Brans
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Carl Henry Brans (1935–) is an American mathematical physicist.
Brans was born on December 13, 1935 in Dallas, Texas, and graduated in 1957 from Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana. Having obtained his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1961, he returned to Loyola in 1960 and in 1970 was appointed professor of physics.
Brans is well known among those interested in the study of gravity. He is noted for his development, with Robert H. Dicke of the Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation in which the gravitational constant varies with time, a leading competitor of Einstein's theory of gravitation, general relativity. A number of very accurate measurements made in the late 1970s has failed to detect this and some of the other predictions made by the Brans-Dicke theory.
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