Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy : : Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos.

Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy : : Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos.

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Superior document:Historical and Cultural Astronomy Series
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Goss, W. M.
TeilnehmendeR:
Hooker, Claire.
Ekers, Ronald D.
Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.
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Aurkibidea:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • J.L. Pawsey and a New Understanding of Early Radio Astronomy
  • Who Was J.L. Pawsey?
  • Our Approach: Understanding Science Through History
  • Different Perspectives on History
  • Structure of This Book
  • Pawsey in the History of Radio Astronomy
  • Ideas in This Book
  • Perspective and History
  • Pawsey and the Philosophy and Sociology of Science
  • J.L. Pawsey: A Quintessential Mertonian Scientist
  • Meet the Authors
  • W. M. Goss
  • Ronald D. Ekers
  • Claire Hooker
  • Additional Texts and Sources
  • Our Sources
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Part I: Childhood
  • Chapter 1: An Inheritance of Intangibles, 1890s
  • Chapter 2: Just a Boy from the Bush, 1908-1925
  • The YAL Tour of Europe December 1924 to July 1925
  • Chapter 3: Becoming a Physicist, 1926-1929
  • Part II: Becoming a Scientist
  • Chapter 4: New Opportunities in Australian Science, 1929
  • The Developing Independence of Australian Science and the Formation of the CSIR
  • Creation of the CSIR, Scene of Most of Pawseyś Career
  • Radio: A Technology Transforming Australia
  • The Creation of the Radio Research Board (CSIR): High Impact in Constrained Circumstances
  • David F. Martyn, A.L. Green and G.H. Munro and L.H. Huxley Are Recruited to the Radio Research Board, 1929-1930
  • Chapter 5: Ionospheric Research, 1895-1935
  • The Beginnings of Radio
  • 1902-1925: Surface Diffraction-A Productive Research Program Based on an Incorrect Premise
  • 1910-1919: The Austin-Cohen Formula: Discarding Anomalous Data
  • Hypothesising an ``Ionosphere ́́-- The Idea of Atmospheric Reflection, 1902
  • Direction-Finding Equipment and the Existence of the Ionosphere
  • Thinking with Equipment: Adapting Direction-Finders to Investigate ``Sky Waves ́́-- Sir Edward Appleton, the Frequency-Change Method and the Magneto-Ionic Theory of the ``Ionosphere,́́ 1924.
  • Connections to Cambridge and London: How the Magneto-Ionic Paradigm Generated a Research Program in Australia, 1929-1939
  • An American Contribution: The ``Pulse-Echo ́́Method for Ionospheric ``Sounding,́́ 1925
  • Chapter 6: To the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, 1931
  • 1931: Award of an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, Choice Between London and Cambridge
  • Friends and Student Life: J. L. Pawsey and Frederick H. ``Ted ́́Nicoll from Canada, 1931-1933
  • Chapter 7: Research for PhD Thesis at Cambridge, 1931-1934
  • Stages 1 and 2: De-Correlated Echoes and Lateral Deviation of Downcoming ``Wireless ́́Waves
  • Stage 3: Use of the Appleton Frequency-Change Method
  • Stage 4: Tuve-Breit Pulse-Echo Method, Pawsey 1932-1934
  • Summary of 4 Stages of Research
  • Conclusion of Pawseyś Thesis 1935
  • Ratcliffeś Evaluation of Pawseyś Research of 1931-1934, in 1974
  • Chapter 8: After the PhD: Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) and Marriage to Lenore Nicoll, 1934-1939
  • J.L. Pawsey: Courtship and Marriage
  • Courtship (1933-1934) and Marriage (1935) to Lenore Nicoll
  • Seeking Employment outside the UK
  • Part III: WWII 1939-1945
  • Chapter 9: Pawseyś Role in Australian Radar Research in World War II, 1939-1945
  • Radar History: An Australian Perspective, 1930s
  • Radar: British Secrecy and Australian Developments, 1930s
  • Pawseyś Recruitment to RPL
  • Radiophysics Laboratory, 1940-1941: Shore Defence, the T/R Switch and the Buggery Bar
  • Australian Isolation: Other Developments in Radar
  • Difficulties at Radiophysics, 1941
  • Scientific Liaison Overseas
  • Air Warning, 1941-1942: Applied Science and Wartime Bureaucracy
  • Light-Weight/Air Warning (LW/AW) Radar, 1942
  • Emerging Leadership and Microwave Radar in Australia
  • 1943- a ``Golden Year ́́in Australian Radar: Changes in Outlook
  • Radar and Victory in the Pacific, 1945.
  • Chapter 10: Transition to Peace, 1945-1946
  • Post-War Planning in 1943
  • Post-War Planning in 1944
  • Radiophysics and the Military Part Company
  • From CSIR to CSIRO: Organisational Change
  • Aversion to Secrecy at CSIR
  • Towards the Sun
  • Part IV: Hot Corona
  • Chapter 11: Beginnings of Solar Radio Astronomy, 1944-1945
  • The Forerunners
  • From Applied Science to a New Field
  • Radio Astronomy in New Zealand and Australia
  • Chapter 12: Serendipity: Sunspots at Collaroy, 1945-1946
  • Serendipity
  • Action in Sydney at the End of WWII
  • The Original Data from Collaroy: First Post-War Radio Astronomy Records
  • Planning the Next Phase of Research, December 1945
  • Chapter 13: Sea-Cliff Interferometry: Dover Heights, 1946
  • Breakthroughs
  • The First Fringes: Australia Day, 26 January 1946
  • The Giant Sunspot of Early February 1946
  • Principle of Aperture Synthesis
  • Variations Are Intrinsic to the Sun, Typical Bursts Non-thermal
  • Chapter 14: The Million Degree Solar Corona, 1945-1946
  • Introduction
  • Understanding the Sun
  • Preparation to Publish Radio Observation of the Hot Corona
  • ANZAAS 1946 and URSI, Paris, 1946
  • ``Hot Corona ́́Published in Nature, 2 November 1946
  • Afterword: Pawsey and Yabsley Summary Publication on Radio Properties of the Quiet Sun, 1949
  • Priority Disputes and Scientific Discovery
  • Part V: Connections
  • Chapter 15: Horizons, 1944-1947
  • Introduction
  • Before Solar Radio Astronomy at Collaroy
  • Planning for Travel
  • Family Life
  • Towards Departure
  • Chapter 16: A New Field of Science, Postwar
  • Other Developments at RPL: Cloud Physics
  • RPL Sydney: Pawsey Builds a ``Learning Organisation ́́for a New Field of Science
  • The Sun and the Radio Stars
  • Groups, Stations and Projects
  • Managing an Emerging Learning Organisation
  • Developments in the UK.
  • The Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge: Martin Ryleś Group
  • At the University of Manchester: Bernard Lovellś Group
  • Developments in the USA
  • Developments in Canada
  • National Research Council in Ottawa
  • David Dunlop Observatory in Toronto
  • The Netherlands: The Bridge Between Radio and Optical Observation
  • Leading the World from ``Down Under?́́
  • Chapter 17: Pursuing ``Radio Astronomy:́́ Pawseyś Travels to North America, the UK and Europe, 1947-1948
  • Contacts with Australian Post-Graduate Students at Cambridge
  • Presenting Australian Results
  • Considering ``Radio Stars ́́-- Reporting Back
  • Pawseyś Attempts to Recruit Theoretician Colleagues
  • The Costs of Absence: Bowenś Review of the Laboratory, May 1948
  • RPL Awaits Pawseyś Return, 1948
  • Publications Concerns at RPL
  • Homeward Bound
  • Chapter 18: Scintillating Relationship with Cambridge, 1948-1951
  • Scintillation and Cygnus A 1946-1950
  • Bolton, Stanley and Slee in New Zealand
  • Further Disadvantage
  • The Cosmic Noise Expedition, New Zealand, and the Identification of Taurus A, Centaurus A and Virgo A
  • The Positions of the Brightest Two Radio Sources, Graham Smith-1951: Cygnus A and Cassiopeia A
  • Part VI: Quiet Leadership
  • Chapter 19: Consolidation: Leadership at RPL, 1950-1951
  • Introduction
  • To Europe
  • A Textbook for Radio Astronomy
  • URSI 1950, Zurich: 9 to 22 September
  • The Textbook Is Contracted
  • Resourcing Astronomy in Australia, 1951-1952
  • Addendum: Long Visions
  • Chapter 20: Finite Resources: Pawsey and the HI-Line, 1948-1960
  • Introduction
  • 1948 and Pawseyś First Realisation of the Importance of the HI Line
  • Mills and HI Line in 1949
  • Paul Wild, Ruby Payne-Scott, John Bolton and the HI Line
  • HI Line Detected and Confirmation in Sydney 6 July 1951
  • Chapter 21: No More Radio Stars! 1952.
  • The End of the ``Radio Star ́́Model: Measuring Radio Source Sizes
  • URSI Comes to Sydney
  • Excitement at URSI: The Angular Size of Sources
  • Collaborations at and After URSI 1952
  • Chapter 22: ``Radio ́́is Part of Astronomy, 1947-1961
  • Introduction
  • Radio Astronomy in 1953
  • B.Y. Mills
  • Correspondence Between Mount Wilson/Palomar with RPL: 1953
  • The Mills Cross, March 1953
  • Millsś Visit to the US August 1953-February 1954
  • Chapter 23: The Galactic Centre, 1951-1954
  • Introduction
  • The Piddington and Minnett (1951) Observations and Interpretation
  • The New ``Hole-in-the-Ground ́́Telescope at Dover Heights
  • Pawseyś Interest and Boltonś Departure, 1952-1953
  • Surveying the Sky
  • Confidence and Caution: Publishing the Galactic Centre Discovery, 1954
  • Aftermath, 1955
  • The Big Picture
  • The Nobel Prize
  • Chapter 24: The Royal Society: Europe and North America, 1954
  • Election as Fellow of the Royal Society of London
  • The Significance of Radio as a Field of Astronomy
  • Pawseyś Overseas Trip July-October 1954
  • URSI General Assembly in the Hague from 23 August to 4 September 1954
  • Solar Work: Potts Hill
  • Mills Cross: Fleurs
  • HI in the Magellanic Clouds: Potts Hill
  • Galactic HI: Potts Hill
  • David Martyn: URSI 1954
  • London and Freiberg September 1954
  • New York, Visit to North American October 1954
  • Canada: October 1954
  • Completing the Textbook Radio Astronomy: Caltech and Berkeley, Mid October 1954
  • Back at CSIRO in Sydney: Late October 1954
  • Chapter 25: The Sun and the Ionosphere, 1946-1955
  • The Status of Ionospheric and Solar Physics in the World of Astronomy
  • Solar Radio Astronomy in Australia (1947-1955)
  • The First Radio Observations of the Sun
  • Ionospheric Research 1947-1954
  • Thermal Radiation from the Ionosphere, 1947-1953
  • Study of the Ionospheric D Layer, 1951-1953.
  • Ionospheric Scintillation (1954).

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