Arthur Covington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian physicist
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Place of Birth: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
About Arthur Covington
- Arthur Edwin Covington (21 September 1913 – 17 March 2001) was a Canadian physicist who made the first radio astronomy measurements in Canada.
- Through these he made the valuable discovery that sunspots generate large amounts of microwaves at the 10.7 cm wavelength, offering a simple all-weather method to measure and predict sunspot activity, and their associated effects on communications.
- The sunspot detection program has run continuously to this day.
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