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Proposed an additional solar-system test of general relativity based on the excess round-trip travel time of radar signals passing through the Sun’s gravitational field.
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This record is the sole-author 1964 proposal. The later multi-author radar observations, subsequent precision improvements and the general theory of relativistic light propagation are separate.
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- Shapiro, Fourth Test of General Relativity
- Shapiro et al., Fourth Test of General Relativity: Preliminary Results
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Irwin I. Shapiro
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Shapiro: radar time-delay test of general relativity
Proposed an additional solar-system test of general relativity based on the excess round-trip travel time of radar signals passing through the Sun’s gravitational field.
Scientific scope
This record is the sole-author 1964 proposal. The later multi-author radar observations, subsequent precision improvements and the general theory of relativistic light propagation are separate.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Irwin I. Shapiro
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.