Radio Astronomer
eBook - ePub

Radio Astronomer

John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Radio Astronomer

John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe

About this book

The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (1922–93), was born in Sheffield and educated at Cambridge University. After wartime service in the Royal Navy, he arrived in Sydney and joined the CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory. In the late 1940s he discovered and identified the first discrete radio sources, unusual objects at vast distances with intense emission at radio frequencies. These discoveries marked the birth of a new field – extragalactic radio astronomy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Ron Ekers and Ken Kellermann
  6. Prologue
  7. 1. A Yorkshire lad
  8. 2. Farewell to old England
  9. 3. Under the Milky Way
  10. 4. Go east, young man
  11. 5. Australia leads the way
  12. 6. Head in the clouds
  13. 7. Welcome to Millikan’s school
  14. 8. High in the Sierras
  15. 9. Radiophysics in transition
  16. 10. Starting with a splash
  17. 11. Charting southern skies
  18. 12. A salute to Karl
  19. 13. One small step
  20. 14. Astronomer at large
  21. 15. A sunburnt Yorkshireman
  22. Notes
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Bibliography
  25. Selected Bolton publications
  26. Index