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  Martin Ryle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result, Ryle was the driving force in the creation and improvement of interferometry and aperture synthesis, which have contributed immensely to upgrading the quality of radio astronomical data.
Ryle worried that Cambridge would lose its standing in the radio astronomy community as other radio astronomy groups had much better funding, so he encouraged a certain amount of secrecy about his aperture synthesis methods in order to keep an advantage for the Cambridge group.
Ryle had a famous heated argument with Fred Hoyle of the Institute of Astronomy about Hoyle's Steady State Universe (see also the note on the 2C source survey), which somewhat restricted collaboration between the Cavendish Radio Astronomy Group and the Institute of Astronomy during the 1960s.
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 MARTIN RYLE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1946 Ryle and Vonberg were the first people to ''publish'' interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths, although it is claimed that Joseph_Pawsey from the University_of_Sydney had actually made interferometric measurements earlier in the same year.
As a result, Ryle was the driving force in the creation and improvement of interferometry and aperture_synthesis, which have contributed immensely to upgrading the quality of radio astronomical data.
Ryle had a famous heated argument with Fred_Hoyle of the Institute_of_Astronomy about Hoyle's Steady State Universe (see also the note on the 2C source survey), which somewhat restricted collaboration between the Cavendish Radio Astronomy Group and the Institute_of_Astronomy during the 1960s.
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 Radical Philosophy - print friendly
(RP 67) Martin Ryle explores the implications of the outcome of the crisis in `English', saluting the development of a cultural studies committed to the reading of texts in a historical context but proposing nevertheless that a separate place should be maintained for a different, literary reading of literary texts (or `literary' texts).
Ryle identifies cultural studies very much with a version of reading the text as historical, `as instances of discourse in a given social and historical conjuncture' (p.
Ryle rightly warns against the `high theoretical discussion of literature and ideology' in which an elite, `possessed of the master-discourse of the ideological' and the `benefit of hindsight' carried out `forensic procedures' on the dead body of the text (p.
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 Encyclopedia: Martin Ryle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 –; October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g.
In addition, Ryle won the Hughes Medal in 1954, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1964, the Henry Draper Medal in 1965, and the Bruce Medal in 1974.
Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
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 Antony Hewish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nobel award to Ryle and Hewish without the inclusion of Bell as a co-recipient was controversial, and was roundly condemned by Hewish's fellow astronomer Fred Hoyle.
Hewish was professor of radio astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1971 to 1989, and head of the MRAO from 1982 to 1988.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968, and he and Martin Ryle were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974.
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 Martin Ryle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ryle's interest quickly shifted to other areas, however, and to explore those he decided early on that the (Click link for more info and facts about Cambridge group) Cambridge group should develop new observing techniques.
As a result, Ryle was the driving force in the creation and improvement of (Click link for more info and facts about interferometry) interferometry and (Click link for more info and facts about aperture synthesis) aperture synthesis, which have contributed immensely to upgrading the quality of radio astronomical data.
Ryle worried that Cambridge would lose its standing in the radio astronomy community as other radio astronomy groups had much better funding, so he encouraged a certain amount of secrecy about his aperture synthesis methods in order to keep an advantage for the (Click link for more info and facts about Cambridge group) Cambridge group.
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 Gary Pearce: Review of Martin Ryle and Kate Soper's "To Relish the Sublime?: Culture and Self-Realization in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ryle and Soper also identify the major problem with Marx's developmentalist schema when they question its lack of definition and specificity in outlining which potentials are to be developed.
Ryle and Soper regard cultural self-realisation as a kind of ultimate horizon for all that is valuable within aesthetic modernity.
Ryle and Soper's necessary corrective here is to take artistic agency and practice seriously and understand the way in which modernism is both élitist and radical: it excludes those without the cultural capital to engage it, while drawing attention to the constructions underpinning literary and social convention.
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 Nat' Academies Press, Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science (2005)
Ryle have dogmatically asserted that the discrete sources cannot be of extragalactic origin, although of the half dozen or so that have indeed been identified, five have been found to correspond with nearby extragalactic nebulae.
Ryle was brusquely told at a later international meeting (one he did attend) that he should stop making profound cosmological pronouncements when a deficit of a mere 10 sources would swing the result to the steady-state value.
Martin Ryle took refuge in the home of his brother-in-law, Graham Smith, who fended off the reporters with untruths about Ryle’s whereabouts.46 Elizabeth and Geoffrey Hoyle were ragged at their schools for weeks.
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 Martin Ryle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Ryle A brief discussion of the life and works of Gilbert Ryle.
The Philosophy of Gilbert Ryle A 2000 issue of the Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, dedicated to this thinker.
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 Nobel Laureate in 1974   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1974 Martin Ryle was awarded the nobel price for his large work in physics.
Ryle was the nephew of the philosopher Gilbert Ryle.
Ryle's early work centred on studies of radio waves from the Sun, sunspots, and a few nearby stars.
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 Martin Ryle Trust
The Martin Ryle Trust is a Registered Charity whose object is to fund scientific research and education on any aspects of reducing violence between states.
Ryle considered that nuclear power was irredeemably connected with nuclear weapons, via the production of plutonium.
The Martin Ryle Trustees believe that Ryle's message and the object of the MRT are as necessary now as ever.
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 The Bruce Medalists: Martin Ryle
Martin Ryle, a graduate of Bradfield College and the University of Oxford, helped develop radar for British defense during World War II.
Ryle’s 1C - 5C Cambridge catalogues of radio sources led to the discovery of numerous radio galaxies and quasars.
Ryle’s counts of radio sources versus brightness supported evolving universe cosmologies, and he became a leading opponent of the steady state model proposed by H. Bondi, T. Gold, & F.
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 Ryle, Martin (1918-1984)
An English radio astronomer (the first professor of the subject in Britain) who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics with Anthony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars.
Ryle’s counts of radio sources versus brightness supported evolving universe cosmologies, and he became a leading opponent of the steady state hypothesis.
Ryle served as the Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/R/Ryle.html   (153 words)

  
 Martin Ryle Bibliography
Ryle’s papers are at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Ryle, M. Hewish, “The Effects of the Terrestrial Ionosphere on the Radio Waves from Discrete Sources in the Galaxy,” MNRAS 110, 381-94 (1950).
Ryle, M. Allan Sandage, “The Optical Identification of Three New Radio Objects of the 3C 48 Class,” Ap.J. Elsmore, B., S. Kenderdine, & Martin Ryle, “The Operation of the Cambridge One-Mile Telescope,” MNRAS 134, 87-95 (1966).
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 Chandra :: Chronicles :: The Discovery of Cygnus A :: January 31, 2001
This led some astronomers, most notably Martin Ryle, to propose that Cygnus A and similar sources were a new type of star that shone at radio wavelengths but was invisible at optical wavelengths.
Martin Ryle was among those to propose that Cyg A and similar sources were a new type of star.
Martin Ryle and George McVittie defended the radio star hypothesis, while Thomas Gold and Fred Hoyle argued that the sources of the radio emission were beyond the Milky Way galaxy.
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 Martin Ryle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Martin Ryle (September 27 1918 – October 14 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems used them for accurate location of weak sources.
Ryle and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 the first Nobel prize in recognition of astronomical research.
In addition won the Hughes Medal in 1954 the Gold Medal of the Royal Society in 1964 the Henry Draper Medal in 1965 and the Bruce Medal in 1974.
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 Martin Ryle -- {{Nobelpristagare|Pristyp=Nobelpriset i fysik|År=1974}} Sir M...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Martin Ryle -- {{NobelpristagarePristyp=Nobelpriset i fysikÅr=1974}} Sir M...
{{NobelpristagarePristyp=Nobelpriset i fysikÅr=1974}} Sir Martin Ryle, född 1918, död 1984, engelsk fysiker och nobelpristagare.
Han och landsmannen Antony Hewish tilldelades nobelpriset i fysik 1974 för "deras banbrytande arbeten inom radioastrofysiken: Ryle för hans observationer och uppfinningar, särskilt apertursyntestekniken, och Hewish för hans avgörande insatser vid upptäckten av pulsarerna".
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 Martin Ryle - Wikipedia
Zusammen mit Antony Hewish erhielt er 1974 den Nobelpreis für Physik, es wurde dabei erstmals ein Nobelpreis als Anerkennung für astronomische Forschung verliehen.
Ryle erhielt weiterhin 1954 die Hughes Medal, 1964 die Goldmedaille der Royal Astronomical Society, 1965 die Henry Draper Medal und 1974 die Bruce Medal.
Informationen der Nobelstiftung zur Preisverleihung 1974 für Martin Ryle (englisch)
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 Ryle, printing company - Ryle, John Charles (1816-1900)
JC Ryle was an evangelical minister of the Church of England in the 19th century and this page contains many of his tracts.
John Charles Ryle was born in the English town of Macclesfield, in the County of Cheshire, JC Ryle • Sermon Readings by T. Sullivan • 39 min.
Gilbert Ryle was a professor at Oxford University from 1945 to 1968.
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 Antony Hewish - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
Han och landsmannen Sir Martin Ryle tilldelades nobelpriset i fysik 1974 för "deras banbrytande arbeten inom radioastrofysiken: Ryle för hans observationer och uppfinningar, särskilt apertursyntestekniken, och Hewish för hans avgörande insatser vid upptäckten av pulsarerna".
Efter utbildningen vid University of Cambridge anslöt sig Hewish 1946 till den grupp av radioastronomer som leddes av Sir Martin Ryle.
Tilldelningen av nobelpriset till Hewish och Ryle, utan att erkänna Jocelyn Bells insatser, har kritiserats.
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 Ryle Coat of Arms
The ancestors of the Ryle family brought their name to England in the wave of migration after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Their name, however, is a reference to Roisel, France, the family's place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
It is hard to say exactly when man first came to the lands that were to become the British Isles, but it can be said with certainty that Paleolithic tribes were flourishing there by 8000 BC.
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 Ryle Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Martin Ryle a Antony Hewish dostali společně Nobelovu cenu za fyziku pro rok 1974 jako vůbec první cenu udělenou za astronomická pozorování.
Martin Ryle se zprvu zaměřil na studium radiových vln pocházejících ze Slunce a z několika nedalekých hvězd a studium slunečních skvrn.
K mapování tak vzdálených radiových zdrojů, jakými kvasary jsou, vyvinul Ryle speciální techniku zvanou "aperture synthesis".
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 Ryle, Gilbert --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ryle gained first-class honours at Queen's College, Oxford, and became a lecturer at Christ Church College in 1924.
A typical instance of the use of concept is in The Concept of Mind (1949) by Gilbert Ryle, an Oxford...
The basic source for this school of thought is the later writings of the Viennese-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, followed by the contributions of John Langshaw Austin, Gilbert Ryle, John Wisdom, G.E. Moore, and other British...
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 Smith, Francis Graham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
English radioastronomer who with his colleague Martin Ryle mapped the radio sources in the sky in the 1950s.
In 1948, Smith and Ryle, investigating a source of radio waves in the constellation of Cygnus, detected a second source in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Smith and Ryle were the first to publish (in 1957) a paper on the possibility of devising an accurate navigational system that depended on the use of radio signals from an orbiting satellite.
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