{"id":530,"date":"2016-07-23T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T04:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=530"},"modified":"2019-09-09T01:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:12:59","slug":"grote-reber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/07\/23\/grote-reber\/","title":{"rendered":"Grote Reber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grote_Reber\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grote_Reber<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"siteSub\">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/div>\n<div id=\"contentSub\"><\/div>\n<table class=\"infobox vcard\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\"><span class=\"fn\">Grote Reber<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Grote_Reber.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d5\/Grote_Reber.gif\/200px-Grote_Reber.gif\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d5\/Grote_Reber.gif 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d5\/Grote_Reber.gif 2x\" alt=\"Grote Reber.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" data-file-width=\"207\" data-file-height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Born<\/th>\n<td>December 22, 1911<br \/>\n<a title=\"Wheaton, Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheaton,_Illinois\">Wheaton, Illinois<\/a>, United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Died<\/th>\n<td><span class=\"nowrap\">December 20, 2002 (aged\u00a090)<\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"Ouse, Tasmania\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ouse,_Tasmania\">Ouse<\/a>, <a title=\"Tasmania\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tasmania\">Tasmania<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Nationality<\/th>\n<td><a title=\"United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">American<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Fields<\/th>\n<td class=\"category\"><a title=\"Radio astronomy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_astronomy\">Radio astronomy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"Alma mater\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alma_mater\">Alma mater<\/a><\/span><\/th>\n<td><a title=\"Illinois Institute of Technology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology\">Illinois Institute of Technology<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Known\u00a0for<\/th>\n<td>Pioneering work in radio astronomy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Notable awards<\/th>\n<td><span class=\"nowrap\"><a title=\"Elliott Cresson Medal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elliott_Cresson_Medal\">Elliott Cresson Medal<\/a> (1963)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Grote Reber<\/b> (December 22, 1911 \u2013 December 20, 2002) was a pioneer of <a title=\"Radio astronomy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_astronomy\">radio astronomy<\/a>, which combined his interests in <a title=\"Amateur radio\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amateur_radio\">amateur radio<\/a> and <a title=\"Amateur astronomy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amateur_astronomy\">amateur astronomy<\/a>. He was instrumental in investigating and extending <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Karl Jansky\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Jansky\">Karl Jansky<\/a>&#8216;s pioneering work, and conducted the first <a title=\"Astronomical survey\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astronomical_survey\">sky survey<\/a> in the radio frequencies.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grote_Reber#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grote_Reber From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grote Reber Born December 22, 1911 Wheaton, Illinois, United States Died December 20, 2002 (aged\u00a090) Ouse, Tasmania Nationality American Fields Radio astronomy Alma mater Illinois Institute of Technology Known\u00a0for Pioneering work in radio astronomy Notable awards Elliott Cresson Medal (1963) Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 \u2013 December 20, 2002) &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/07\/23\/grote-reber\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2109,2148,15,17],"tags":[789,1408],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-530","7":"format-standard","8":"category-antique-radio","9":"category-obituaries","10":"category-science","11":"category-thinking-about","12":"post_tag-grote-reber","13":"post_tag-radio-astronomy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}