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Grote Reber

1911 - 2002

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Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) was an American pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies. His 1937 radio antenna was the second ever to be used for astronomical purposes and the first parabolic reflecting antenna to be used as a radio telescope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grote Reber has received more than 134,141 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Grote Reber is the 618th most popular physicist (down from 445th in 2019), the 6,024th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,541st in 2019) and the 128th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Grote Reber ranks 618 out of 851. Before him are Harry Daghlian, Harold Brown, Gustav Mie, Aleksandr Stoletov, Harold Agnew, and Mario Livio. After him are Walther Müller, Brian Greene, John Lennard-Jones, Lawrence M. Krauss, Sumio Iijima, and Georges-Louis Le Sage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Grote Reber ranks 232. Before him are Aly Khan, Mervyn Peake, Romeu Pellicciari, Brigitte Horney, Mario Perazzolo, and István Bibó. After him are Gerhard Stöck, David Seymour, Leen Vente, Paris Pişmiş, Gyula Lázár, and Giuseppe Olmo. Among people deceased in 2002, Grote Reber ranks 198. Before him are Ramiro de León Carpio, Peter Blau, John Agar, Lonnie Donegan, Sanya Dharmasakti, and Reginald Rose. After him are Jean Dockx, Peter R. Hunt, Sándor Mátrai, Andre DeToth, Alexandru Todea, and Mahmoud Fayad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 6,024 out of 20,380. Before him are Christopher Scarver (1969), Art LaFleur (1943), Reginald Rose (1920), Matthew Gray Gubler (1980), Chuck Grassley (1933), and Beulah Bondi (1889). After him are John Boehner (1949), Zach Braff (1975), Paul Dooley (1928), Mark Boone Junior (1955), Ken Olsen (1926), and Michael Cudlitz (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 128. Before him are Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), James Hansen (1941), Harry Daghlian (1921), Harold Brown (1927), and Harold Agnew (1921). After him are Brian Greene (1963), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Norris Bradbury (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Charles Kittel (1916), and Gerard K. O'Neill (1927).

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