Wilson, Penzias, and Bell Labs horn antenna. Bell Labs image
6-m Mm Telescope in Mitaka, Japan. NAOJ image
IAU-URSI HISTORICAL RADIO ASTRONOMY WORKING GROUP
Biographical Memoirs
The intent of the Biographical Memoirs of the Working Group is to provide a collection of short biographies of our deceased colleagues documenting their professional contributions in radio astronomy. We do not aspire to create an exhaustive collection of in-depth biographies. If we are the first to publish a memoir (ahead of AAS, IAU, etc.), we request that you ask our (and our author's) permission to re-publish. If a memoir has been published elsewhere (AAS, Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, etc.), we will normally post a link to the existing memoir rather than creating a new one. We will occasionally, with permission, re-publish a memoir from elsewhere; we make decisions to do so on a case-by-case basis. We routinely provide memoirs of IAU members written for this page to the IAU for inclusion on the main IAU Web site.
Thomas A. Clark, 1939-2021 (Contributed by David B. Shaffer, with assistance from Brian E. Corey, Alan E. E. Rogers, and Nancy R. (Vandenberg) Rowland)
Jim Cohen, 1948-2006 (Contributed by Alan Pedlar, Anita Richards and Busaba Kramer)
John A. Galt, 1925-2012 (Contributed by Sean Dougherty, Tom Landecker, Tim Robishaw) See also the transcript of the W.T. Sullivan III June 1973 interview with Galt.
Mike Gaylard, 1952-2014 (Contributed by Ludwig Combrinck)
Janusz Gil, 1951-2014 (Contributed by Richard Wielebinski)
Albert Greve, 1938-2011 (Contributed by Jeff Mangum based on material provided by Dennis Downes, Pierre Cox, Michel Guelin, and Albert's daughter, Sophie)
Gavril Grueff, 1942-2022 (Contributed by Luigina Feretti and Giancarlo Setti)
Robert W. Hobbs, 1938-2013 (Contributed by Kenneth Johnston and Stephen Maran)
William E. Howard III, 1932-2016 (Contributed by Stephen P. Maran) See also the transcript of the W.T. Sullivan III September 1971 interview with Howard, as well as the transcript of the September 2011 Howard interview by K.I. Kellermann.
Alan Maxwell, 1926-2021, see obituary on AAS Web site. See also the transcript of the W.T. Sullivan III May 1973 interview with Maxwell.
David Meier, 1949-2023 (Contributed by David Murphy)
Peter Georg Mezger, 1928-2014 (Contributed by Richard Wielebinski) See also the transcript of the W.T. Sullivan III November 1973 interview with Mezger.
Hugo van Woerden, 1926-2020, (Contributed by the Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen)
Mario Vigotti, 1943-2021 (Contributed by Gavril Grueff)
Viktor Vitkevich, 1917-1972 (Contributed by Rustam Dagkesamanskii)
Campbell M. Wade, 1930-2024, (Contributed by Kenneth I. Kellermann et al.) See also the transcript of the W.T. Sullivan III May 1978 interview with Wade, the transcript of the December 2003 interview by Robyn Harrison, and the transcript of the March 2015 interview by K.I. Kellermann.
Gart Westerhout, 1927-2012 (Contributed by William E. Howard III) See also the transcript of the W.T. Sullivan III November 1973 interview with Westerhout, as well as transcripts of the 7-session 1993 interview of Westerhout by Steven Dick.
J. Paul Wild, 1923-2008 (Contributed by R.D. Ekers and R H. Frater) See also the transcript of the W.T. Sullivan III March 1978 interview with Wild.
Gisbert Winnewisser, 1936-2011 (Contributed by Jürgen Stutzki and Richard Wielebinski)