Record ID:
58771394 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1911
  • Wheaton, Illinois
Death:
  • 2002
  • Ouse, Tasmania
Lived/located in:
  • Bothwell, Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Radio astronomer
Notes:
  • Grote Reber was the father of radio astronomy, being the first person to build a "big dish" antenna for the purpose of mapping the sky at radio frequencies. He discovered many discrete radio sources, and he mapped the band of bright radio emission from our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Reber came to Tasmania in the late 1950s because of its unique location at high magnetic latitude in the southern hemisphere. He spent 40 years studying low frequency emissions with telescopes he built himself, first in partnership with the University of Tasmania School of Physics, and later on his own at Bothwell. The Grote Reber Museum has now been set up near the The University of Tasmania School of Mathematics and Physics' Mt. Pleasant Radio Telescope Observatory just off Richmond Road, Cambridge. http://www.groterebermuseum.org.au/about
  • My adventures in Tasmania, 1983: caption (by Grote Reber)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 16 June 2017: ("Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) was a pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies... Reber was born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago... Starting in 1951, he received generous support from the Research Corporation in New York, and moved to Hawaii... In 1954, Reber moved to Tasmania.. where he worked with Bill Ellis at the University of Tasmania. There, on very cold, long, winter nights the ionosphere would, after many hours shielded from the sun's radiation by the bulk of the Earth, 'quieten' and de-ionize, allowing the longer radio waves into his antenna array. Reber described this as being a 'fortuitous situation'. Tasmania also offered low levels of man-made radio noise, which permitted reception of the faint signals from outer space. In the 1960s, he had an array of dipoles set up on the sheep grazing property of Dennistoun, about 7.5 km northeast of the town of Bothwell, Tasmania, where he lived in a house of his own design and construction... He was looked after in his final days at the Ouse District Hospital, about 50 km northwest of Hobart, Tasmania, where he died in 2002, two days before his 91st birthday....") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_Reber
Local system number:
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX28722
Cataloguing source:
  • AIAS eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc