Weinreb, Sander
Sander Weinreb papers, 1960-2006.
The collection includes 1960-1963 material on the search for the deuterium line and the detection of interstellar hydroxyl while Weinreb was at MIT, and 2003-2006 materials from Weinreb's tenure on the AUI Visiting Committee for NRAO and on NRAO's EVLA Advisory Committee.
American electrical engineer. Ph.D. electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1963). Professional experience includes: research staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (circa 1963-1965); staff, electronics division head, assistant director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (1965-1989); Martin Marietta (1989-1996); University of Massachusetts (1996-1999); California Institute of Technology; Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1999-). While still a graduate student at MIT, he developed the world's first digital autocorrelation spectrometer which he then used to place a new upper limit to Galactic deuterium, and in 1963 with Alan Barrett, Littleton Meeks, and J. C. Henry, he detected the OH ion, which was the first radio observation of an interstellar molecule. His autocorrelation spectrometer technique has been used at virtually every major radio observatory throughout the world and has been crucial in the subsequent explosive growth of interstellar molecular spectroscopy.
Weinreb, Sander
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
Deuterium.
Radio astronomy
Spectrometer
Spectrum analysis
AIP-ICOS
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