The Story of Radio Astronomy ~ James Fradgley (MIstP)

This talk is about how it all started, with various discoveries over the years. It goes on to cover various things that are currently of interest. Areas covered include:

Pre-war history, Jansky and other early pioneers

Jodrell Bank and the Cambridge group: Lovell, Hey and Ryle's developments

Interferometry: techniques used to improve resolving power

CMB radiation: its discovery. What is it? Where we are now

Pulsars and Quasars: their detection; what they are; blazars; active galactic nuclei

Radio Galaxies:  what sort of galaxy are they? Structure of radio emission

21 cm hydrogen line: what we learn from the study of neutral hydrogen