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James Stanley Hey

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English physicist and radio astronomer (1909-2000)

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James Stanley Hey was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he laid the basis for the development of radio astronomy.

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1959Eddington Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
Member of the Order of the British Empire

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James Stanley Hey was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he laid the basis for the development of radio astronomy. While working in Richmond Park during the Second World War, Hey discovered that the Sun radiates radio waves and localised for the first time an extragalactic radio source in the constellation Cygnus.

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United Kingdom
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1909 to 2000 · aged 90
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