{"product_id":"joe-pawsey-and-the-founding-of-australian-radio-astronomy-early-discoveries-from-the-sun-to-the-cosmos-9783031079153","title":"Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy: Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePawsey made a name for himself in the international astronomy community within a decade after WWII and coined the term radio astronomy. His most valuable talent was his ability to recruit and support bright young scientists who became the technical and methodological innovators of the era, building new telescopes from the Mills Cross and Chris (Christiansen) Cross to the Parkes radio telescope. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe development of aperture synthesis and the controversy surrounding the cosmological interpretation of the first major survey which resulted in the Sydney research group's disagreements with Nobel laureate Martin Ryle play major roles in this story. This book also shows the connections among prominent astronomers like Oort, Minkowski, Baade, Struve, famous scientists in the UK such as J.A. Ratcliffe, Edward Appleton and Henry Tizard, and the engineers and physicists in Australia who helped develop the field of radio astronomy. Pawsey was appointed the second Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Green Bank, West Virginia) in October 1961; he died in Sydney at the age of 54 in late November 1962. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eUpper level students, scientists and historians of astronomy and technology will find the information, much of it from primary sources, relevant to any study of Joseph L. Pawsey or radio astronomy. This open access book includes a Foreword by Woodruff T. Sullivan II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This comprehensive biography draws on an extraordinarily large volume of international and institutional archival material, supplemented by multiple interviews and extensive discussions with astronomical colleagues of Pawsey. … The remarkable life and career of Joe Pawsey deserves to be more widely known by the international astronomical community.” (Peter Robertson, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Vol. 26 (3), 2023)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrontispiece and cover\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDedication\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Childhood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1 An Inheritance of Intangibles, 1890s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2 Just a Boy from the Bush, 1908-1925\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3 Becoming a Physicist, 1926-1929\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Becoming a scientist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4 New Opportunities in Australian science, 1929\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5 Ionospheric Research, 1895-1935\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 To the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge 1931\u003c\/p\u003e  7 Research for PhD Thesis at Cambridge 1931-1934\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8 After the PhD: Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) and Marriage to Lenore Nicoll 1934-\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1939\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: WWII 1939-1945\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9 J.L. Pawsey’s Role in Australian Radar Research in World War II\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10 Transition to Peace, 1945-1946\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart 4: Hot Corona\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11 Beginnings of Solar Radio Astronomy, 1944-1945\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12 Serendipity: Sunspots at Collaroy, 1945-1946\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13 Sea-cliff Interferometry: Dover Heights, 1946\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14 The Million Degree Solar Corona, 1945-1946\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5: Connections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15 Horizons 1944-1947\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16 A New Field of Science\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e17 Pursuing “Radio Astronomy”: Pawsey’s travels to North America, the UK and Europe, \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1947-1948\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18 Scintillating Relationship with Cambridge, 1948-1951\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6: Quiet Leadership\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19 Consolidation: Leadership at RPL, 1950-1951\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20 Finite Resources: Pawsey \u0026amp; the HI line\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e21 No More Radio Stars! 1952\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22 1953: \"Radio\" is Part of Astronomy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e23 The Galactic Centre, 1951-1954\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e24 The Royal Society: Europe and North America, 1954\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e25 The Sun and the Ionosphere\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e26 Overseas again: Jodrell Bank and IAU, August 1955\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 7: Towards a Bigger Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e27 Pawsey and the Giant Radio Telescope, 1951-1956\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e28 Brain Drain - Trip to US and Canada 1957-1959\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e29 Driving the GRT, 1957-1959\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e30 Schism at Radiophysics (1960)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e31 John Bolton Returns, 1960-1961\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e32 Reflections on Science at\/from the GRT\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 8: The Development of Understanding\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e33 Pawsey and Philosophy of Science\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e34 The Development of a Theory for Radio Emission\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e35 Radio Source Survey: disputes, 1948-1957\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e36 Radio Source Survey: reconciliation, 1958-1962\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e37 The Evolution of Aperture Synthesis Imaging\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 9: Death and Legacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e38 To the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 1961\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e39 Visions for NRAO, 1962\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e40 The Final Year – 1962\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e41 Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e42 Conclusion: J.L. Pawsey (1908-1962) and the Development of Radio Astronomy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Dramatis Personae\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Timeline\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix D: Electronic Supplemental Material (ESM)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix E: NRAO ONLINE Supplementary Resources\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742893146455,"sku":"9783031079153","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783031079153.jpg?v=1758387178","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/joe-pawsey-and-the-founding-of-australian-radio-astronomy-early-discoveries-from-the-sun-to-the-cosmos-9783031079153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}