biography
pronunciation:
[rayber]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911– )
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| biography:
| Radio astronomer, born in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. An amateur ham radio operator, he was so intrigued by reports of Karl Jansky's ‘cosmic static’ that he built a parabolic dish, the first radio telescope, in his yard in Wheaton (1937). As the world's first radio astronomer, he published a radio map of the sky in 1944. He moved to Tasmania (1954), where he presided over a field of dipoles (antennas) 3500 ft in diameter while continuing his private research. |
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