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Karl Guthe Jansky
Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. An amateur astronomer, he is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
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science · American physicist and radio engineer (1905–1950) · astronomer · physicist · inventor · astrophysicist · also Karl Guthe Jansky, Karl Jansky, Jansky
Born 22 October 1905 · Died 14 February 1950 · Q319212
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The original site of Jansky's antenna (40°21′54
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-02-14.
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1937· 1 entry
And did the first systematic survey of astronomical radio waves
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1935· 1 entry
Jansky made the suggestion that the strange radio signals were produced from interstellar gas, in particular, by "thermal agitation of charged particles
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1932· 1 entry
At a moment of maximum signal caused by alignment with the center of our galaxy in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius
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1930· 1 entry
Essentially all that we knew about the heavens had come from what we could see or photograph
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-10-22.
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