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Martin Ryle

1918 - 1984

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Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths. With improved equipment, Ryle observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Ryle is the 44th most popular astronomer (down from 33rd in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 374th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Astronomer.

Martin Ryle is most famous for inventing the radio telescope.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Martin Ryle ranks 44 out of 644. Before him are Robert Woodrow Wilson, Vesto Slipher, Johannes Hevelius, Asaph Hall, Johann Bayer, and Clyde Tombaugh. After him are Wilhelm Schickard, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Michel Mayor, Arthur Eddington, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and John Michell.

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Among people born in 1918, Martin Ryle ranks 25. Before him are Katherine Johnson, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Takashi Kasahara, Jens Christian Skou, Jørn Utzon, and Ken Miles. After him are William Holden, Bertram Brockhouse, Jerome Karle, Billy Graham, Paul D. Boyer, and Gunnar Sønsteby. Among people deceased in 1984, Martin Ryle ranks 19. Before him are Mikhail Sholokhov, Julio Cortázar, Johnny Weissmuller, Stanislaw Ulam, Carl Ferdinand Cori, and Ed Gein. After him are Pyotr Kapitsa, Vicente Aleixandre, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, and Janaki Ammal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Ryle ranks 485 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Morton Stanley (1841), Captain Tom (1920), Robbie Coltrane (1950), David Niven (1910), William Baffin (1584), and Enid Blyton (1897). After him are Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Alan Ball Jr. (1945), Keir Starmer (1962), Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960), John Wallis (1616), and Emma Thompson (1959).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Martin Ryle ranks 4. Before him are Edmond Halley (1656), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), and William Lassell (1799). After him are Arthur Eddington (1882), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), John Michell (1724), James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), Fred Hoyle (1915), Antony Hewish (1924), and John Russell Hind (1823).

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