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Start Date:1956 People:Ewen, Harold I. (Doc)
Purcell, Ed |
Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:Non-NRAO Instrument Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--non-NRAO instrument |
Description: Seventy years ago, on 25 March 1951, Harold "Doc" Ewen, working with his Harvard thesis advisor Edward Purcell, made the first observation of HI, neutral interstellar hydrogen, predicted but never before detected. Ewen, as his thesis project, used a horn antenna jutting out of the window of the Lyman Lab at Harvard.In this photo, taken at the dedication of the Harvard 60 foot antenna in 1956, Ewen (left) and Purcell (right) stand under the 60 foot antenna and beside the horn antenna used for the HI detection, which now sits outside the Jansky Lab at the Green Bank Observatory.For Ewen's account of the detection, see https://www.nrao.edu/archives/static/Ewen/ewen_HI.shtml. [show more]
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