Sir Martin Ryle
1918-1984
British radio astronomer who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in physics with Antony Hewish for pioneering research in radio astrophysics. Ryle produced the first detailed map of ...
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Sir Martin Ryle
1918-1984
English Radio Astronomer
Martin Ryle did not establish radio astronomy, but he made it practical by overcoming
difficulties astronomers encountered when trying to study stars...
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Visible light is just a small part of the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. At longer wavelengths than the red and infrared are the radio waves, and they are detectable with radio telescopes. How...
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Sir Martin Ryle
Martin Ryle