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By multiplying with a reference signal and then integrating, this astronomer developed a device to detect signals in high noise environments called a lock-in amplifier. An optical cavity coupled to a set of two level systems is this physicist’s namesake model that first predicted superradiance. (15[1])Using Dirac’s large numbers hypothesis, this physicist first argued for the anthropic principle, and he also allegedly coined the name of black holes based on the Black Hole of Calcutta. (-5[1])This scientist learned via (*) phone call that he had been “scooped” in his discovery of the CMBR. Doppler broadening is reduced by frequent collisions in a “narrowing” named for this (10[1])man. This physicist is the second namesake of a scalar field theory which replaces one over big G with a varying scalar field. For 10 points, identify this American physicist who co-names an alternative to GR with Carl Brans. (10[1])■END■ (0[3])

ANSWER: Robert H. Dicke [accept Dicke model; accept Dicke effect; accept Dicke narrowing; accept Brans–Dicke theory]
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