Karl Guthe Jansky
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Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. An amateur astronomer, he is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
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Jansky and his rotating directional radio antenna (early 1930s), the world's first radio telescope.
Jansky with a rough map of the night sky and pointing to the constellation of Cassiopeia. The wavy lines track the radio emissions he discovered on the chart paper, which also line up with the disk of the Milky Way.
Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, New Mexico
Full-size replica of Jansky's radio telescope, now at the Green Bank Observatory
Green Bank plaque: Jansky AntennaScientists from United States 6
About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1950 · aged 44
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