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Author Goss, W. M. (William Miller), author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxmGVCQT6mKqQBjkG7CQq

Title Joe Pawsey and the founding of Australian radio astronomy : early discoveries, from the sun to the cosmos / W.M. Goss, Claire Hooker, Ronald D. Ekers.

Publication Info. Cham : Springer, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (l, 815 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Historical & cultural astronomy, 2509-3118
Historical & cultural astronomy. 2509-3118
Access Open access GW5XE
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so. Pawsey made a name for himself in the international astronomy community within a decade after WWII and coined the term radio astronomy. His most valuable talent was his ability to recruit and support bright young scientists who became the technical and methodological innovators of the era, building new telescopes from the Mills Cross and Chris (Christiansen) Cross to the Parkes radio telescope. The development of aperture synthesis and the controversy surrounding the cosmological interpretation of the first major survey which resulted in the Sydney research group's disagreements with Nobel laureate Martin Ryle play major roles in this story. This book also shows the connections among prominent astronomers like Oort, Minkowski, Baade, Struve, famous scientists in the UK such as J.A. Ratcliffe, Edward Appleton and Henry Tizard, and the engineers and physicists in Australia who helped develop the field of radio astronomy. Pawsey was appointed the second Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Green Bank, West Virginia) in October 1961; he died in Sydney at the age of 54 in late November 1962. Upper level students, scientists and historians will find the information, much of it from primary sources, relevant to any study of Joseph L. Pawsey or radio astronomy. This is an open access book.
Contents Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Childhood -- Becoming a Scientist -- WWII 1939-1945 -- Hot Corona -- Quiet Leadership -- Towards a Bigger Science -- The Development of Understanding -- Death and Legacy -- Appendix.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 23, 2023).
Language English.
Local Note Springer Nature Springer Nature - SpringerLink eBooks - Fully Open Access
Subject Pawsey, Joseph L.
Astronomers -- Australia -- Biography.
Radio astronomy -- Australia -- History.
Astronomy, space & time.
History of science.
Circuits & components.
Mensuration & systems of measurement.
Astronomers
Radio astronomy
Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
Indexed Term Radio astronomy, history
Telescope arrays
Joseph L. Pawsey, founder of Australian radio astronomy
2c survey
Radiophysics Laboratory
Radar research in World War II
Ionosphere research
Solar radio astronomy
Aperture synthesis
Radio cosmology book
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Added Author Hooker, Claire, author.
Ekers, R. D. (Ron D.), author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdRv3gjbxMbFvBGP3p773
Other Form: Printed edition 9783031079153
Printed edition 9783031079177
Printed edition 9783031079184
ISBN 9783031079160 (electronic bk.)
3031079167 (electronic bk.)
9783031079153
Standard No. 10.1007/978-3-031-07916-0 doi
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