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Karl Guthe Jansky

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Karl Guthe Jansky 1905-1950 American radio engineer who discovered the first extraterrestrial radio source. While investigating noise in short-wave radio communications, Jansky identified a steady his... Read more

Jansky, Karl (1905-1950)

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Jansky, Karl (1905-1950) American radio engineer One of the ways modern astronomers study the Universe is by tracing light waves through telescopes; another is by studying radio waves. The man who dis... Read more

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Karl Jansky

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Karl Jansky was not an astronomer, but a radio engineer who inadvertently made an important contribution to astronomical science. He was born in Oklahoma in 1905 and studied at the University of Wisco... Read more