Martin Ryle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Martin Ryle

English radio astronomer

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1918

Place of Birth: Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 14-Oct-1984

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Martin Ryle

  • Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g.
  • aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.
  • In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths.
  • With improved equipment, Ryle observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time.
  • He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.
  • He was Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982.
  • Ryle and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, the first Nobel prize awarded in recognition of astronomical research.
  • In the 1970s, Ryle turned the greater part of his attention from astronomy to social and political issues which he considered to be more urgent.

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