Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy: Mills, Christiansen, Wild, Bracewell

Frater, R. H.; Goss, W. M.; Wendt, Harry

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65599-4

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“…In their useful catalogs, they reported 1159, 892, and 219 radio sources within declinations of +10 to −20, −20 to −50, and −50 to −80 degrees. Like so many other astronomers mentioned here, Bernard (Bernie) Yarnton Mills (1920-2011: Frater et al [71], Bhathal [235], Frater et al [236]) from Manly obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Sydney. Equipped with this, in 1942, he started to help develop radar receivers and displays under Joe Pawsey at CSIR, and he went on to obtain his Masters of Engineering in 1950 and Doctor of Science in Engineering in 1959.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…John Paul Wild (1923, Frater and Ekers [70], Frater et al [71]) was born in Sheffield, England. A gunnery and radar officer in the Royal Navy (1943)(1944)(1945)(1946)(1947), he was also involved in research trying to understand why early radar was sometimes jammed, later found to be due to radio interference from the active Sun 29 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Gum crater on the Moon is named after Colin Gum. Sydney-born Ronald Newbold Bracewell (1921-2007: Frater et al [71], Petrosian [187], Thompson and Frater [188]) had the same traditional 'educational trifecta' as many of the astronomers listed here. He went to Sydney Boys High School, then the University of Sydney, and then Cambridge, England, for his doctorate.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, now just outside the top-ten are (Roberts [201], 'Solar Radio Bursts of Spectral Type II') and (Kerr [156], 'A Magellanic effect on the galaxy') by authors we have met. [71,431,432] in the late 1940s and early 1950s [433]. Hindman went on to co-publish 17 refereed articles up until 1970.…”

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confidence: 99%

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History of Astronomy in Australia: Big-Impact Astronomy from World War II until the Lunar Landing (1945–1969)

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Radio astronomy commenced in earnest after World War II, with Australia keenly engaged through the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. At this juncture, Australia’s Commonwealth Solar Observatory expanded its portfolio from primarily studying solar phenomena to conducting stellar and extragalactic research. Subsequently, in the 1950s and 1960s, astronomy gradually became taught and researched in Australian universities. However, most scientific publications from this era of growth and discovery have no country of affiliation in their header information, making it hard to find the Australian astronomy articles from this period. In 2014, we used the then-new Astrophysics Data System (ADS) tool Bumblebee to overcome this challenge and track down the Australian-led astronomy papers published during the quarter of a century after World War II, from 1945 until the lunar landing in 1969. This required knowledge of the research centres and facilities operating at the time, which are briefly summarised herein. Based on citation counts—an objective, universally-used measure of scientific impact—we report on the Australian astronomy articles which had the biggest impact. We have identified the top-ten most-cited papers, and thus also their area of research, from five consecutive time-intervals across that blossoming quarter-century of astronomy. Moreover, we have invested a substantial amount of time researching and providing a small tribute to each of the 62 scientists involved, including several trail-blazing women. Furthermore, we provide an extensive list of references and point out many interesting historical connections and anecdotes.

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“…The astute reader will recognize in the above description the textbook introduction to the multibeam interference and eventually diffraction (see Optics by Hecht, for example), and its analogy with the beam steering performed in radio astronomy. A classic example in this respect is that of the Chris Christiansen designed radio telescope of 1951 [10] presented in Figure 8b and discussed briefly in the optics textbook by Hecht.…”

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confidence: 99%