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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The 2010 Grote Reber Gold Medal for outstanding and innovative contributions to radio astronomy has been awarded to Dr. Alan Rogers, who is a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

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, and through painstaking ...

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.

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 ...

In charge of the observatory is young (35) Grote Reber, who broke into radio astronomy by developing a hobby. Reber read about the sky waves some ten years ago while he was working as a radio ...

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 ...

A world renowned radio astronomer from the United States has paid tribute to the man whom he describes as the father of astronomy. A museum celebrating the achievements of the late Dr Grote Reber ...