Reber Telescope Unit

Description

Grote Reber arrived in Green Bank in late 1958 and in 1959-1960 oversaw the reconstruction of his original Wheaton antenna. In 1990 the Reber antenna was declared a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service. This unit includes materials related to the effort to obtain the Historic Landmark designation for the telescope, and covers the period 1958-1990

Creator

Records of the NRAO

Relation

See the Wheaton Antenna Unit in the Papers of Grote Reber, which includes correspondence, notes, papers, and drawings for the original 1936-1938 construction in Wheaton IL, as well as Reber's Green Bank reconstruction drawings.

Type

Text

Start Date

1958

End Date

1990

Series

Green Bank WV Operations Series

Size of Item

1 folder

Citation

Records of the NRAO, “Reber Telescope Unit,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed May 5, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/30673.