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English
Pages
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Women astronomers, Computer engineering, Radio astronomy, Astronomy, Physics, Biography, History, Women, australia, Women, biography, Astrophysics, Astronomers, NATURE, Science & Technology, Physique, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Sky Observation, Observations and Techniques Astronomy, Popular Science in Astronomy, Electrical Engineering
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Table of Contents

Introduction: the life of Ruby Violet Payne-Scott - 28 May 1912 (Grafton NSW, Australia) to 25 May 1981 (Sydney, Australia)
Ruby Payne-Scott: the early years: 1912-1938, ancestors, childhood, secondary school and Sydney University
Woodlands School, AWA, new career opportunities for women in World War II
Personnel file from CSIR/CSIRO
War time research by Payne-Scott at RPL
Payne-Scott - the first woman radio astronomer and the transition to peacetime - 1944-1945
Payne-Scott at Dover Heights 1945-1947: discovery of type I, II and III solar bursts and the introduction of Fourier synthesis in astronomy
Hornsby 1948: type III bursts revealed; conflicts with Bolton
Payne-Scott at Potts Hill, 1949-1951: movies of the outward motions of solar outbursts with swept-lobe interferometer
Payne-Scott and URSI, 1952: her last experience as a radio astronomer
Reminiscences and anecdote of Ruby Payne-Scott as told by friends and colleagues
A remarkable family: Bill and Ruby Hall
Payne-Scott, Communist Party of Australia, commonwealth investigation service and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Danebank School 1963-1974; the Ruby Payne-Scott lectures
The end of Payne-Scott's life; a retrospective
Epilogue: why did we write this book?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index.

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Series
Astrophysics and space science library -- 363
Copyright Date
2010

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Library of Congress
QB36.P39 G6 2009, QB4QB1-991TK1-9971, QB36.P39 G67 2009, QB4-4.9

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Pagination
xxi, 354 p. :
Number of pages
354

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Open Library
OL25562271M
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underradarfirstw00goss
ISBN 10
3642031404, 3642031412
ISBN 13
9783642031403, 9783642031410
LCCN
2009931715
OCLC/WorldCat
428028988, 462823854

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