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Radio
telescope inventor Grote Reber Gone - Pioneering radio astronomer
Grote Reber died Dec 20, 2002 in his adopted Tasmanian home, where the
atmosphere could be clear to electromagnetic radiation of wide wavelength
and he could make his marvelous radio maps of the sky.
Wheaton, Ill.-born Reber was of the school of pick up the sticks - and
run with them. He wasn't first to discover radio waves streaking in from
the outer cosmos, but he took this small notion and worked to create and
integrate the first dish antennas and recorders to begin the cataloging
of the radio universe, with -- as the Associated Press points out in its
obituary -- its quasars, pulsars and Big Bang afterglows. More
of this Moon Traveller Commentary
Related
Grote
Reber, Who Built First Radio Telescope for Astronomy, Dies at 90 -Dec.
25, 2002, NYT [reg req]
JPL Basics
of Radio Astronomy
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Round
up of year's famous departed -Dec. 29, 2002, NYT Mag [reg re]
Review:
The Air Show at Brescia, 1909 -Nov 20, 2002, NYT [reg req]
The
Air Show at Brescia, 1909 -Amazon.com
WSJ corporate accounting
scandal page -WSJ [fee req] |
