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Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 An Inheritance of Intangibles, 1890s
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    Chapter 2 Just a Boy from the Bush, 1908–1925
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    Chapter 3 Becoming a Physicist, 1926–1929
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    Chapter 4 New Opportunities in Australian Science, 1929
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    Chapter 5 Ionospheric Research, 1895–1935
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    Chapter 6 To the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, 1931
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    Chapter 7 Research for PhD Thesis at Cambridge, 1931–1934
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    Chapter 8 After the PhD: Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) and Marriage to Lenore Nicoll, 1934–1939
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    Chapter 9 Pawsey’s Role in Australian Radar Research in World War II, 1939–1945
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    Chapter 10 Transition to Peace, 1945–1946
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    Chapter 11 Beginnings of Solar Radio Astronomy, 1944–1945
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    Chapter 12 Serendipity: Sunspots at Collaroy, 1945–1946
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    Chapter 13 Sea-Cliff Interferometry: Dover Heights, 1946
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    Chapter 14 The Million Degree Solar Corona, 1945–1946
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    Chapter 15 Horizons, 1944–1947
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    Chapter 16 A New Field of Science, Postwar
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    Chapter 17 Pursuing “Radio Astronomy”: Pawsey’s Travels to North America, the UK and Europe, 1947–1948
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    Chapter 18 Scintillating Relationship with Cambridge, 1948–1951
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    Chapter 19 Consolidation: Leadership at RPL, 1950–1951
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    Chapter 20 Finite Resources: Pawsey and the HI-Line, 1948–1960
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    Chapter 21 No More Radio Stars! 1952
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    Chapter 22 “Radio” is Part of Astronomy, 1947–1961
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    Chapter 23 The Galactic Centre, 1951–1954
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    Chapter 24 The Royal Society: Europe and North America, 1954
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    Chapter 25 The Sun and the Ionosphere, 1946–1955
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    Chapter 26 Overseas Again: Jodrell Bank and IAU, August 1955
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    Chapter 27 Pawsey and the Giant Radio Telescope, 1951–1956
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    Chapter 28 Brain Drain: Trip to US and Canada 1957–1959
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    Chapter 29 Driving the GRT, 1957–1959
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    Chapter 30 Schism at Radiophysics, 1960
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    Chapter 31 John Bolton Returns, 1960–1961
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    Chapter 32 Reflections on GRT Science, post 1961
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    Chapter 33 Pawsey and Philosophy of Science
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    Chapter 34 The Development of a Theory for Radio Emission
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    Chapter 35 Radio Source Survey: Disputes, 1948–1957
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    Chapter 36 Radio Source Survey: Reconciliation, 1958–1962
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    Chapter 37 The Evolution of Aperture Synthesis Imaging
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    Chapter 38 To the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 1961
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    Chapter 39 Visions for NRAO, 1962
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    Chapter 40 The Final Year, 1962
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    Chapter 41 Legacy
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    Chapter 42 Conclusion: J.L. Pawsey (1908–1962) and the Development of Radio Astronomy
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Title
Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy
Published by
Springer International Publishing, August 2022
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-07916-0
ISBNs
978-3-03-107915-3, 978-3-03-107916-0
Authors

Goss, W. M., Hooker, Claire, Ekers, Ronald D.

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