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Martin Ryle

1918 - 1984

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Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Ryle has received more than 195,583 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Martin Ryle is the 33rd most popular astronomer (up from 59th in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 684th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Astronomer.

Martin Ryle is most famous for inventing the radio telescope.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Martin Ryle ranks 33 out of 644. Before him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Robert Luther, Caroline Herschel, Johannes Hevelius, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Wilhelm Schickard. After him are Adolphe Quetelet, Michel Mayor, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Arthur Eddington, Fred Hoyle, and Robert Woodrow Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Martin Ryle ranks 22. Before him are Alberto Ascari, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Frederick Sanger, Chaim Herzog, Katherine Johnson, and William Holden. After him are Jørn Utzon, Kai Siegbahn, Billy Graham, Muriel Spark, Ernst Otto Fischer, and Jens Christian Skou. Among people deceased in 1984, Martin Ryle ranks 17. Before him are Martin Niemöller, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Ed Gein, Ray Kroc, and Stanislaw Ulam. After him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Karl Wolff, Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, Ahmed Sékou Touré, and Anna Anderson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Ryle ranks 374 out of 8,785. Before him are John Ruskin (1819), William Laud (1573), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885), Harthacnut (1018), Anne, Princess Royal (1950), and Calico Jack (1682). After him are Harold Pinter (1930), Hugh Grant (1960), George Mallory (1886), G. H. Hardy (1877), Kenneth Branagh (1960), and Mordred (null).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Martin Ryle ranks 3. Before him are Edmond Halley (1656), and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943). After him are Arthur Eddington (1882), Fred Hoyle (1915), William Lassell (1799), Antony Hewish (1924), John Flamsteed (1646), James Bradley (1693), Stephen Gray (1666), George Darwin (1845), and Adelard of Bath (1075).

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