A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR
This translation is a collection of memoirs recounting an interesting but largely still dark era of Soviet astronomy. The arrangement of the essays is determined primarily by the time when radio astronomy studies began at the institutions involved.
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This translation of A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR makes descriptions of the antennas and instrumentation used in the USSR, the astronomical discoveries, as well as interesting personal backgrounds of many of the early key players in Soviet radio astronomy available in the English language for the first time. This book is a collection of memoirs recounting an interesting but largely still dark era of Soviet astronomy. The arrangement of the essays is determined primarily by the time when radio astronomy studies began at the institutions involved.
These include the Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN), Gorkii State University and the affiliated Physical-Technical Institute (GIFTI), Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical institute (GAISH) and Space Research Institute (IKI), the Department of Radio Astronomy of the Main Astronomical Observatory in Pulkovo (GAO), Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (SSR), Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (IRE), Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation Institute (IZMIRAN), Siberian Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation (SibIZMIRAN), the Radio Astrophysical Observatory of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and Leningrad State University. A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR is a fascinating source of information on a past era of scientific culture and fields of research including the Soviet SETI activities. Anyone interested in the recent history of science will enjoy reading this volume.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Springer
City:
Dordrecht
Pages:
276
More info:
height 234 mm
width 156 mm
weight 578 gr
thickness 17 mm
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Age recommended:
Professional and scholarly
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC23) 522.6820947
Library of Congress Subject: 2012933119 Radio astronomy - Soviet Union - History
Departments:
Theoretical & mathematical astronomy; History of science; Astrophysics;
Record updated at:
20 May, 2013
time:
12:51
Summary
A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR
1 Radio Astronomy Studies at the Lebedev Physical Institute.- 2 Radio Astronomy Studies in Gorkii.- 3 Radio Astronomy at GAISH and IKI.- 4 GAO Department of Radio Astronomy.- 5 Radio Astronomy at the SAO.- 6 Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory and other Armenian Organisations.- 7 Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- 8 Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.- 9 IRE of the USSR Academy of Sciences.- 10 IZMIRAN.- 11 SibIZMIRAN.- 12 The RO of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.- 13 Leningrad State University.
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