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Martin Ryle

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I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.


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I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.


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In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.


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In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.


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In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.


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We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.


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About Martin Ryle






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Sir Martin Ryle died on 14 October 1984 in Cambridge. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1971)
Royal Medal (1973)
Bruce Medal (1974)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1974)
Ryle Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory


Lectures
In 1965 he was invited to co-deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Exploration of the Universe. In 1946 Ryle and Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths although it is claimed that Joseph Pawsey from the University of Sydney had actually made interferometric measurements earlier in the same year.

aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. g.

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