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Grote Reber
(22 Dec 1911 - 20 Dec 2002)
American radio engineer and amateur astronomer.
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Science Quotes by Grote Reber (1 quote)
In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of his equipment facilities. If greater progress were to be made it would be necessary to construct new and different equipment especially designed to measure the cosmic static.
— Grote Reber
Reber explaining his own motivation to build the first radio telescope.
See also:
- 22 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Reber's birth.
- It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: Great Amateurs of Science, by John Malone. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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