Grote Reber Dies; Radio Astronomy Pioneer

The Washington Post | December 26, 2002 | Copyright

Grote Reber, a pioneer of radio astronomy who built an antenna dish in his back yard in Illinois in the 1930s and tuned it to radio signals from space, died Dec. 20 in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania.

The news of his death, two days short of his 91st birthday, was announced by Fred Lo, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, N.M. The cause was not reported.

Mr. Reber was the first person to build a radio telescope dedicated to astronomy, opening a window on the universe that eventually produced such landmark discoveries as quasars, pulsars and the remnant ...

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