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Grote Reber

1911 - 2002

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Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) was an American 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. His 1937 radio antenna was the second ever to be used for astronomical purposes and the first parabolic reflecting antenna to be used as a radio telescope. For nearly a decade he was the world's only radio astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grote Reber is the 545th most popular physicist (up from 618th in 2019), the 5,065th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,023rd in 2019) and the 114th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Grote Reber ranks 545 out of 851. Before him are William Robert Grove, Ira Sprague Bowen, Joseph Larmor, Vladimir Steklov, Gerard K. O'Neill, and Pief Panofsky. After him are Gilbert Walker, John Robison, Ludvig Faddeev, Gunnar Nordström, Woldemar Voigt, and Giovanni Battista Beccaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Grote Reber ranks 174. Before him are Floyd Council, Guy Burgess, Heinz von Foerster, René Barjavel, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, and Nikolai Kuznetsov. After him are Xiao Hong, Harry Andrews, Tarō Okamoto, George Seaton, Kaj Franck, and Brunhilde Pomsel. Among people deceased in 2002, Grote Reber ranks 158. Before him are Văn Tiến Dũng, Heinz von Foerster, Layne Staley, Julio Pérez, Ramón Grosso, and Ted Williams. After him are Kristen Nygaard, Alan Lomax, Marion Dönhoff, Said Belqola, Vlado Perlemuter, and Louis-Marie Billé.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 5,065 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Herbert Mullin (1947), Paul Gleason (1939), George Baird (1907), Beth Hart (1972), and Leonard Peltier (1944). After him are Leslie Jones (1967), Michelle Monaghan (1976), Fanny Crosby (1820), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), and Katherine Helmond (1929).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 114. Before him are Clyde Cowan (1919), David J. Griffiths (1942), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Leona Woods (1919), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), and Gerard K. O'Neill (1927). After him are Gene Amdahl (1922), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Philip Morrison (1915), Samuel T. Cohen (1921), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), and Wallace Clement Sabine (1868).

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