Jansky had earned a BS, most of an MS when, 27 years old and working for Bell, he discovered radio signals that repeated on a cycle of 23 hours and 56 minutes c

Jansky had earned a BS, most of an MS when, 27 years old and working for Bell, he discovered radio signals that repeated on a cycle of 23 hours and 56 minutes coming from the Milky Way. "Jansky wanted to further investigate the Milky Way radio waves after 1935 (he called the radiation "Star Noise" in his 1936 Masters thesis of the same name); but he found little support from either astronomers, for whom it was completely foreign, or Bell Labs...." (Wikipedia) Apart from Reber, noone followed up for 10 years. Sometimes more than a year will pay off a lot more.