Description: Annotation by Thompson on verso of photo: “218 ft diameter antenna at Jodrell Bank which was used with the long baseline interferometer. Figures are A.R. Thompson (right) & H.P. Polman [Polmon?] (left). Circa 1954.”
Description: Annotation by Thompson on verso of photo: “The moveable antenna of the 158 MHz long baseline interferometer at Jodrell Bank. Four sections each consisting of 5 full wave dipoles. Built by A.R. Thompson circa 1953.”
Description: Data taken 20-21 December 1955 as part of Thompson's PhD thesis at Jodrell. It was a group effort to extend interferometer baselines using a radio link. The famous and very important set of observations established for the first time that there…
Description: Dick Thompson, Ft. Davis, TX, November 1957. Note by Thompson on verso: “Burning out an ants’ nest which was too close to our lab. Notice I am holding the tin of gasoline at a safe distance from the flames!”
Description: Note by Thompson on verso: “Left to right Alan [Maxwell], Govind [Swarup], Sam [Goldstein], myself. Harvard Radio Astronomy Station, Fort Davis, Texas, approximately 1960.”
Description: Don McIvor (right) and two friends, Ft. Davis, TX, January 1962. McIvor owned a ranch near Ft. Davis where Thompson and Maxwell put radio equipment.
Description: Note on verso by Sarah Thompson Reaves [Thompson's daughter]: “Mrs Mallen owned a restaurant visited often by Dad and his friends in Marfa TX. She and Dad became good friends.”
Description: Note by Thompson on verso: “Left -> right: Dick Thompson, Mike Hughes, ?, Bob Sproul (on whose ranch the observatory was located), Don McIvor (rancher with nearby land), ?, Oct 26, 1962” Stamped as “Harvard Radio Astronomy Station Fort Davis, Texas”
Description: Philip Morrison and Dick Thompson, Socorro, NM, August 1981, at the time of Morrison's public lecture, "Cosmic Waterfalls, Whirlpools and Fountains," given in conjunction with IAU Sumposium 97.
Description: Left to right: Mike Little (Ft. Davis VLBI technician, with his son), Paul Vanden Bout, Dick Sramek, Gary Tobias (Ft. Davis VLBA technician), Miller Goss, Dick Thompson, at the 30 June 1996 Ft. Davis VLBA antenna Open House. [Camera-supplied date of…
