The Forgotten Star of Radio Astronomy
Scientific American,
Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronomy: radio astronomy.
Under the radar : the first woman in radio astronomy : Ruby Payne-Scott
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction: The Life of Ruby Violet Payne-Scott – 28 May 1912 (Grafton NSW, Australia) to 25 May 1981 (Sydney, Australia)
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Ruby Payne-Scott: the Early Years: 1912–1938, Ancestors, Childhood, Secondary School and Sydney University
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Woodlands School, AWA, New Career Opportunities for Women in World War II
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Personnel File from CSIR/CSIRO
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 War Time Research by Payne-Scott at RPL
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 Payne-Scott – The First Woman Radio Astronomer and the Transition to Peacetime – 1944–1945
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 Payne-Scott at Dover Heights 1945–1947: Discovery of Type I, II and III Solar Bursts and the Introduction of Fourier Synthesis in Astronomy
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Hornsby 1948: Type III Bursts Revealed; Conflicts with Bolton
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Payne-Scott at Potts Hill, 1949–1951: Movies of the Outward Motions of Solar Outbursts with the Swept-Lobe Interferometer
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 Payne-Scott and URSI, 1952: Her Last Experience as a Radio Astronomer
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Ruby Payne-Scott as Told by Friends and Colleagues
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 12 A Remarkable Family: Bill and Ruby Hall
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 13 Payne-Scott, Communist Party of Australia, Commonwealth Investigation Service and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 14 Danebank School 1963–1974; the Ruby Payne-Scott Lectures
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 15 The End of Payne-Scott’s Life: A Retrospective
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 16 Epilogue: Why Did We Write This Book?
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