English radio astronomer (1918–1984)
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He built telescope systems that could see radio waves from the edge of the universe, then walked away from astronomy because he decided the world's problems were more urgent.
Martin Ryle was born on 27 September 1918 in England. In 1946, he and Derek Vonberg published the first interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths — a method that would remake the field. Ryle developed aperture synthesis and other revolutionary radio telescope systems, using them to locate and image faint radio sources with new precision, observing the most distant galaxies known at the time. He became the first Professor of Radio Astronomy at Cambridge, founded the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, and in 1974 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Antony Hewish — the…
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