Grote Reber
Grote Reber ( born December 22, 1911 Wheaton in Chicago, † December 20, 2002, Tasmania, Australia) was an American radio astronomer. He was one of the pioneers of radio astronomy and conducted the first sky survey by the radio frequency range.
Born in a suburb of Chicago Reber graduated in 1933 in communications engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology).
From 1933 to 1947 he worked in various radio factories in Chicago. From 1933 he studied the works of the astronomer Karl Jansky about telescopes that detect radio-frequency radiation and decided to work in this field. He joined the Bell Labs, where Jansky was employed during the great depression. Reber built until 1937 in addition to its own radio telescope in Wheaton in Chicago. The telescope is now at the Green Bank Observatory.
With this telescope, he looked through the observable sky at different frequencies in the radio range. By 1941, he managed to complete the screening, with some additions in 1943 he published his data finally.
Until the 1950s, the high-energy range was still counted as black-body radiation, although Rebers data showed otherwise. But in the 1950s expanded on the basis of Reber's publication, the field of radio astronomy and theoretical models have been developed further. Most findings of modern astronomy and astrophysics, radiation would be inconceivable without Rebers initiative.