Abraham Pais
Dutch-American physicist and science historian
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer (1918-1984)
Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systemsand used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.
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About the Martin Ryle
Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systemsand used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths. With improved equipment, Ryle observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time. He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy in the University of Cambridge and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. He was the twelfth Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982. Ryle and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, the first Nobel prize awarded in recognition of astronomical research. In the 1970s, Ryle turned the greater part of his attention from astronomy to social and political issues which he considered to be more urgent.
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I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.
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In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.
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We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
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In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
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In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
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I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
Martin RyleEnglish radio astronomer (1918-1984)