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Sep 27, 1918 Brighton, England, United Kingdom Died on 14 Oct 1984 (aged 66)
English radio astronomer
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About Martin Ryle
- Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g.
- aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.
- In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths.
- With improved equipment, Ryle observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time.
- He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.
- He was Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982.
- Ryle and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, the first Nobel prize awarded in recognition of astronomical research.
- In the 1970s, Ryle turned the greater part of his attention from astronomy to social and political issues which he considered to be more urgent.
