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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 118,846 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Grote Reber is the 445th most popular physicist (up from 462nd in 2019), the 3,551st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,687th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Grote Reber ranks 445 out of 717Before him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Eugen Goldstein, Richard Mollier, G. M. B. Dobson, Ivan Puluj, and Heinrich Rubens. After him are Friedrich Kohlrausch, Jacques Babinet, William Robert Grove, Hiroshi Amano, Walther Ritz, and Charles Galton Darwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Grote Reber ranks 125Before him are Brunhilde Pomsel, Mstislav Keldysh, Merle Oberon, Gustave Gilbert, Paul Carell, and Anatoly Rybakov. After him are Theodore Romzha, Barbara West, Prince Carl Bernadotte, José María Arguedas, Guy Burgess, and Son Sann. Among people deceased in 2002, Grote Reber ranks 122Before him are Dudley Moore, Mamo Wolde, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Inge Morath, Branko Stanković, and Günter Wand. After him are John Thaw, Robert Guéï, Marion Dönhoff, Domènec Balmanya, Gabriel Almond, and Franjo Kuharić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 3,551 out of 18,182Before him are J. Christopher Stevens (1960), John C. Breckinridge (1821), Allen Iverson (1975), Edwin Catmull (1945), Paul Gleason (1939), and Brian Herbert (1947). After him are Bernie Mac (1957), Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), Frederick William Franz (1893), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), Jean Peters (1926), and William Baumol (1922).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 88Before him are Philip Abelson (1913), Leonard Susskind (1940), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), John C. Mather (1946), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Saul Perlmutter (1959). After him are Alan Sokal (1955), Alan Guth (1947), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Robert Brout (1928), and Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898).