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Name: Grote Reber
Birth Date: December 22, 1911
Place of Birth: Wheaton, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: radio engineer, radio astronomer

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Biography of Grote Reber
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Grote Reber was enthralled by radio. He built his own radio set and was a "ham" operator by the age of fifteen. When Karl Jansky (1905-1950) announced his discovery of radio noise from outer space in 1933, Reber became excited enough to further the...
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Biography of Grote Reber
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Grote Reber (born 1911) was a radio engineer who became interested in radio astronomy as a hobby. He built the first radio telescope in the backyard of his home and, for a decade, he was the only radio astronomer in the United States. Reber recorded...


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Grote Reber Information
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Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) was one of the pioneers of radio astronomy. He was instrumental in repeating Karl Jansky's pioneering but somewhat simple work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Grote Reber, pioneer in radio astronomy
12/26/2002: 395 words, approx. 1 pages
00-00-0000 Grote Reber, pioneer in radio astronomy -- Picked up signals from antenna dish in '39 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 12-26-2002, Thursday Section: LOCAL NEWS Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition Biographical: GROTE REBER SYDNEY, Australia - Grote Reber, a pioneer of...
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Grote Reber Dies; Radio Astronomy Pioneer
12/26/2002: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
 


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