A few of us are widely honored experts, such as Ron Hatch, formerly of the Magnavox Corp. and winner of the Keppler Award, who should have been the one cited stating that the global positioning system ...

John Bolton pioneered the field from a converted radar lab on the cliffs of Dover Heights in Sydney. This is just one story in Marcus Chown’s book about black holes, A Crack in Everything.

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 ...

Dec. 20, 2002: Grote Reber died. In 1937, Reber built the world’s first parabolic radio telescope in his backyard. The Reber Telescope was moved to the National Radio Observatory at Green Bank in the ...

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.