[Cover of Sullivan's book 2009, Cosmic Noise]
Sullivan's Cosmic Noise, Cambridge University Press, 2009


NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY ARCHIVES

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III: Tapes Series

Interviewee: Anthony Richard Thompson

A. Richard Thompson, 1931- . Interviewed 1 May 1978 at the VLA in Socorro, New Mexico, length of interview: 70 minutes.

Sullivan's brief summary of topics: 1952-55 at Jodrell Bank with Hanbury Brown on rotating lobe interferometer and LBI; concepts regarding radio sources; techniques of receivers; 1957-62 at Fort Davis on solar spectrograph; U.S. versus British radio astronomy.

Sullivan's files include: Publications card, transcription of Sullivan's interview, photo.


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