IAU-URSI HISTORICAL RADIO ASTRONOMY WORKING GROUP

The Working Group for Historical Radio Astronomy is a joint IAU-URSI Working Group affiliated with IAU Commissions B4 (Radio Astronomy) and C3 (History of Astronomy), and URSI Commission J (Radio Astronomy). The Working Group has the following goals:

• Maintain an on-going bibliography of publications on the history of radio astronomy
• Commission biographical memoirs for deceased radio astronomers
• Encourage research relating to the history of radio astronomy. This also includes the origins and development of current large facilities as well as the assembly and maintenance of a master list of surviving historically-significant, but no longer active, radio telescopes and associated instrumentation, and documenting the technical specifications and scientific achievements of these instruments.

Organizing Committee for 2018-2021:

• Gloria Dubner (South America) [gdubner@iafe.uba.ar]
• Ron Ekers (Australia-Oceania) [ron.ekers@csiro.au]
• Pierre Encrenaz (France) [pierre.encrenaz@obspm.fr]
• Luigina Feretti (Italy) [lferetti@ira.inaf.it]
• Gopal Krishna (India) [gopaltani@gmail.com]
• Leonid Gurvits (WG Vice-Chair - Eastern Europe) [gurvits@jive.nl]
• Masato Ishiguro (Japan) [masato.ishiguro@nao.ac.jp]
• Ken Kellermann (WG Secretary - US) [kkellerm@nrao.edu]
• Wayne Orchiston (Southeast Asia) [wayne.orchiston@narit.or.th]
• Bo Peng(China) [pb@nao.cas.cn]
• Richard Schilizzi (WG Chair - UK) [richard.schilizzi@manchester.ac.uk]
• Richard Strom (Netherlands) [strom@astro.nl]
• Jasper Wall (Canada) [jvw@phas.ubc.ca]
• Richard Wielebinski (WG Past Chair - Germany) [rwielebinski@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de]
• Other WG Members: Jaap Baars, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Ellen Bouton (Web manager), Alan Bridle, Don Campbell, Rebecca Charbonneau, Marshall Cohen, David DeVorkin, Martin George, Miller Goss, Sergei Gulyaev, James Lequeux, Leonid Matveenko, Bruce McAdam, Jim Moran, Richard Porcas, Tim Robishaw, Tuomas Savolainen, Woody Sullivan, Govind Swarup, Tony Tyson, Hugo Van Woerden, Paul Vanden Bout, Gerrit Verschuur, Jack Welch, Bob Wilson, Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Anton Zensus.

Working Group Meetings and Reports - 2006 and forward

• Impact of Radio Astronomy on Technology and Society (August/September 2020 URSI GA meeting)
• The History of Large Single Dish Projects and Lessons Learned (2018 IAU GA meeting)
• Interferometers and Arrays: Lessons Learned (2017 URSI GA meeting)
• Golden Years of Radio Astronomy (2015 IAU GA meeting)

Grote Reber Medal Awards, 2005-2014

Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Radio Astronomers

Resources - History of Radio Astronomy