Martin Ryle
Videos
Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonber
Martin Ryle 1976
Martin Ryle with a telescope model
Astronomer Royal
Videos
Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the junior is the Astronomer Ro
Martin Ryle
…first Professor of Radio Astronomy in the University of Cambridge and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. He was the twelfth 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…
John Flamsteed, the first astronomer royal, by Thomas Gibson. Royal Society, London.
John Flamsteed 1702
Edmond Halley 072
James Bradley by Thomas Hudson