Word: reber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also: Jon P. Perry; Charles S. Peskin; Joseph H. Pleck; Robert C. Pozen; John T. Ramsey; David C. Ray; Mark Reber; Frederic N. Ris; David A. Samuels; Richard Schoolman; Alan N. Schulman; Philip A. Schwartzkroin; John F. Seegal; P. Alfred Shapiro; Paul A. Shapiro; Steven J. C. Shea; Douglas R. Shier; Richard A. Shore; Jonathan E. Silver...
Jansky's work was wellpublicized, but it was done during the great Depression, when little cash was available to encourage scientific enterprise. Only a single radio ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance...