Making Waves The Story of Ruby Payne-Scott: Australian Pioneer Radio Astronomer /

• Main Author: Goss, M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Science > History.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History of Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35752-7

This book is an abbreviated, partly re-written version of "Under the Radar - The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott." It addresses a general readership interested in historical and sociological aspects of astronomy and presents the biography of Ruby Payne-Scott (1912  1981)....

Table of Contents:

• A Brief, Basic Guide to Terms and Concepts of Solar Radio Astronomy
• Ruby Payne-Scotts Ancestors and Her Early Childhood
• Ruby Payne-Scotts Education and Early Employment
• Wartime Research by Ruby Payne-Scott at the Radiophysics Laboratory
• 1944-1945: Ruby Payne-Scott  The First Woman Radio Astronomer
• 1945-1946: Early Radio Astronomy at Dover Heights
• 1946-1947: Personal Tragedy and Professional Triumph
• 1948: Hornsby Field Station  Daily Observations
• 1949-1951: Radio Astronomy Blossoms as a Field, but Ruby Must Resign from the Radiophysics Laboratory
• 1952: Ruby Payne-Scotts Last Experience as a Radio Astronomer at the International Union of Radio Science
• The Married Life and Motherhood of Ruby Payne-Scott
• 1963-1974: Employment at Danebank School
• The Last Years and Legacy of Ruby Payne-Scott.