Grote Reber, who erected the world’s first radio telescope in his back yard in Wheaton and went on to champion a field of astronomy that led to the discovery of quasars, pulsars and black holes ...

SYDNEY -- Grote Reber, a pioneer of radio astronomy who built an antenna dish in his back yard in Illinois in the 1930s and tuned it to radio signals from space, died Dec. 20 in Australia's ...

Grote Reber, 90, a pioneer of radio astronomy who built an antenna dish in his Wheaton, Ill., backyard in the 1930s and tuned it to radio signals from space, died Dec. 20 of unspecified causes.

When Grote Reber built the world`s first radio telescope behind his Wheaton home 47 years ago, his neighbors were a little concerned about what he was up to.”There was a great curiosity as to ...

2002-12-26 04:00:00 PDT Sydney-- Grote Reber, a pioneering radio astronomer who built the first substantial radio telescope dedicated to astronomy and put it in his backyard in Wheaton, Ill., died ...

“Grote Reber’s achievements showed, most importantly, that one person can make a difference”, said Dr David Jauncey. Grote Reber died in Tasmania on 20 December 2002, two days before his ...

Grote Reber is, as far as I know, the last of the amateur ‘outsider’ scientists; the last person who had no scientific training, built his own equipment in his garden, ...

From the depths of space—too deep to be reached by astronomers’ light-telescopes—mysterious bodies continually bombard the earth with radio waves. No one knows much about these tuneless ...

Grote Reber moved there in 1954 and remained in Tasmania till he died in 2002." Reber's ashes will be presented to NCRA at the GMRT site on February 4 by the trustees of the Grote Reber Foundation.

In 1937, an astronomically inclined electrical engineer named Grote Reber built a homemade radio dish out of lumber and sheet metal in his backyard in Wheaton, Illinois. The following year, he ...

Finding a star of that mass was "exciting and startling for sure," said Thankful Cromartie, a graduate student at the University of Virginia and Grote Reber pre-doctoral fellow at the National ...

The Grote Reber Foundation has announced that Professor Jim Moran will be the recipient of the 2013 Grote Reber Gold Medal. The Grote Reber Medal is awarded annually for significant and innovative … ...