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Radio engineer and ham Grote Reber [1] independently pioneered radio astronomy back in the late 1930s by building a dish in his back yard in Illinois.[2] (Noone
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
Radio engineer and ham Grote Reber [1] independently pioneered radio astronomy back in the late 1930s by building a dish in his back yard in Illinois.[2] (Noone else who knew about Jansky's results followed up.) Tech in that day wasn't up to working at 3.3GHz, so he moved down to 910MHz then 157MHz. In 1939 he discovered Cygnus-A. In 1954 he moved to Tasmania to get away from man-made interference!
[1][https://public.nrao.edu/news/grote-reber-radio-astronomy-pioneer-dies/ https://public.nrao.edu/news/grote-reber-radio-astronomy-pio...]
[2][https://web.archive.org/web/20060927053750/https://www.bigear.org/CSMO/HTML/CS13/cs13p14.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20060927053750/https://www.bigea...]
(by John Kraus who ran Ohio's "Big Ear" operation)
- winstongator 5y ago"Edwin Hubble and Grote Reber — could there be more than a cosmic connection between them, both being astronomers, one optical and the other radio? Yes, it turns out, there is. Around 1900 the Hubble family lived in Wheaton, Illinois, and as his 7th and 8th grade teacher young Edwin Hubble had a Miss Harriet Grote who later married Schuyler Reber and bore him Grote Reber as their first son. She often commented to Grote that young Edwin Hubble stood out from other students in his class and that she felt he would go far. In later years, when Hubble's fame was spreading she took special pride in his accomplishments and that she had been his teacher." WOW