Reber, Grote, 1911-2002.
Grote Reber papers, 1923-1999.
These papers document the career, research, and personal life of Grote Reber, who designed and built the worlds first radio telescope in 1937, and established radio astronomy as a key sub-discipline of astronomy. His interest and research in radio astronomy and in other fields, including archeology, botany, electronics, and meteorology, continued nearly until the time of his death in 2002. The papers consist of scientific and personal correspondence, logbooks, lecture notes, technical and research materials on radio astronomy and a wide variety of other topics, manuscripts and published papers, speeches, ham radio materials, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, an oral history interview, family records, and other miscellaneous materials.
Pioneer in the postwar development of radio astronomy. Detected galactic radio noise in 1939 using a 32-foot parabolic transit dish he designed and built; detected solar radio emission in 1943. After working for the National Bureau of Standards from 1947 to 1951, he went to Hawaii to work independently, studying and publishing on the ionosphere and atmosphere as a result of observing problems there. In 1954 moved to Tasmania where he concentrated on long wavelengths, designing and building arrays to study galactic radio emission and absorption.
Reber, Grote, 1911-2002.
Radio astronomy -- History.
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