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| death_place = Ouse, Tasmania | nationality = American | field = Radio astronomy | work_institutions = | alma_mater = Illinois Institute of Technology | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Pioneering work in radio astronomy | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | signature = | footnotes = }} Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) was a pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies. His 1937 radio antenna was the second ever to be used for astronomical purposes and the first parabolic reflecting antenna to be used as a radio telescope.〔(Gerrit L. Verschuur, The invisible universe: the story of radio astronomy, p. 14 )〕 For nearly a decade he was the world's only radio astronomer.〔Encyclopedia of World Biography, Volume 21, p. 364.〕 ==Life== Reber was born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and graduated from Armour Institute of Technology (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1933 with a degree in electrical engineering. He was an amateur radio operator (ex-W9GFZ), and worked for various radio manufacturers in Chicago from 1933 to 1947. When he learned of Karl Jansky's work in 1933,〔() NYTimes for-pay article〕〔() John David North, ''Cosmos: an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology''. University of Chicago Press, 2008, p.661. ISBN 0-226-59441-6〕〔() Kip S. Thorne, ''Black holes and time warps: Einstein's outrageous legacy''. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, p. 324. ISBN 0393312763〕 he decided this was the field he wanted to work in, and applied to Bell Labs, where Jansky was working. However this was during the height of the Great Depression and there were no jobs available. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grote Reber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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