NATS 1745 Chapter Notes -Cygnus A, Martin Ryle, Royal Radar Establishment
29 Jun 2014
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History of astronomy textbook notes - chapter 11 stanley hey. Young physicist, radar expert -> signed up for war service on the govt scientific register. Discovered powerful radar jamming, which was coming from the sun karl jansky. Physicist and engineer employed by bell telephone at holmdel, nj. Discovered first radio waves from space in aug 1931. Built huge radio antenna and discovered static sources of interference came from the milky way. Bell labs reckoned static didnt threaten their communications system and took jansky off job, he never returned to astronomy. His discovery fired up young enthusiast grote reber grote reber. Built the first purpose designed radio telescope in his backyard. Conducted radio survey of sky but it was ignored because of the great depression, reber was an amateur. Left us for tasmania in 1950s, died in 2002, ashes scattered at 24 major radio observatories world wide. Made his own radio dish 31feet/9m in diameter stanley hey (again)
